The Last Theory

How to find interesting and plausible rules with Jonathan Gorard


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The Wolfram model allows an infinite number of rules.

Some of these rules generate interesting universes that are complex and connected, some of these rules generate plausible universes that look a little like our own, and others... go nowhere.

In this excerpt from my conversation with Jonathan Gorard, I ask him how to find rules of Wolfram Physics that are both interesting and plausible.


Jonathan Gorard

  • Jonathan Gorard at The Wolfram Physics Project
  • Jonathan Gorard at Cardiff University
  • Jonathan Gorard on Twitter
  • The Centre for Applied Compositionality
  • The Wolfram Physics Project

The paper referred to by Jonathan

  • Algorithmic Causal Sets and the Wolfram Model by Jonathan Gorard

Concepts mentioned by Jonathan

  • Causal invariance
  • Manifold
  • Causal graph
  • Space-like separation
  • Causal cone
  • Dimensionality
  • Curvature
  • Discrete differential operators
  • Discrete Laplacian


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