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From my understanding it says that the laws of physics are merely expansion following some set of rules. Because there is no limit to the complexity that you c
by justanotherjoe 3y ago
From my understanding it says that the laws of physics are merely expansion following some set of rules. Because there is no limit to the complexity that you can gain by expanding using some sort of expansion rules, and the rules of physics are emergent phenomenon of this expansion.
But why does the complexity stop there? my intuition says that if the complexity is ever increasing, why does the laws of physics not evolve over time into something much more complex?
Why would random expansion like this settle on a set of stable structures? I thought the whole point is that it does not?
- aeternum 3y agoYou can have both consistent laws and highly complex emergent behavior. For example if you take the rules of quantum mechanics and simulate sufficiently many particles, you would see the rules of thermodynamics emerge and classical physics emerge. If you take enough of those, you atoms and molecules, and simulate sufficiently many, you would see chemical bonds and the rules of chemistry emerge. Take sufficiently many chemistry molecules, and let your sim run for long enough, you should eventually get biological membranes and then life to emerge.
- justanotherjoe 3y agoyour example is intuitive and understandable. I just assumed that Wolfram was unto more 'radical' kind of expansion. Something more akin to 'seed' than 'building blocks'.
- aeternum 3y agoMy understanding of his 'ruliad' idea is that the rules yield stable and predictable laws like QM and relativity. His idea is basically that there is this high-dimensional graph that represents reality and if you define certain propagation rules between nodes you see the emergence of stable laws like quantum mechanics, relativity, and space itself.
- dist-epoch 3y ago> Why would random expansion like this settle on a set of stable structures? The anthropic principle comes into play. If the laws of physics changed enough we would disappear. Of course, then you can ask why don't we see tiny changes or changes in far away regions of the universe.
- larodi 3y agoI would rather expect that this rule based (grammar) theory applies to the ever lasting evolution of the consciousness/mind rather than the underlying universe. As another commenter pointed out is weird if the physics laws just stopped evolving in this massive rule set system.