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I don't claim to be fully educated on NKOS physics. But here's how I see it, if it helps: A statement like "If A implies B, ~B implies ~A" is true whether or n
by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I don't claim to be fully educated on NKOS physics. But here's how I see it, if it helps:
A statement like "If A implies B, ~B implies ~A" is true whether or not there is a god, or a prime mover, or even an A or a B. Doesn't matter; the statement is still valid.
Now, you can expand that statement with all sorts of niceties that are equivalent: "If (A and B) implies B, ~B implies ~A". You're limited only by your imagination here, and the number of true equivalences is infinite.
The list of true statements might expand at a consistent rate across a series of complicated, embiggening rules...reminiscent of the Big Bang? And maybe within that expansion you could see a train of As moving to the left sometime, like a photon going the speed of light, which might sometimes beget a "reaction" when encountering an expression like (~B or A) when they meet, that sends a train of Bs heading out the other direction.
If such interactions are complex enough, eventually huge structures can be created, like self-reproducing entities that eventually develop consciousness. To those entities, there is nothing imaginary about what they perceive and experience. Their universe has been created, simply because it was possible.
Disclaimer: I could be all wrong as far as Wolfram's view, but this happens to be my own and I think Wolfram is getting at the same thing.
- blablabla123 5y agoI'm not familiar with NKOS at all although I find it really fascinating what I've heard about it. Regarding these really simple A, B, ... kinds of statements, this reminds me of a talk from a theoretical physicists and a science philosopher at university. There it was also pointed out that this is a particularly clean way of describing laws of nature (if that is an option anyway). Especially speaking about causality and singularities. That makes me wonder when there's a differential equation, when solved numerically it's also solved in this very basic iterative way.