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You can have both consistent laws and highly complex emergent behavior. For example if you take the rules of quantum mechanics and simulate sufficiently many p
by aeternum 3y ago
You 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.