Stephen Wolfram's Ruliad
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Russell Standish
Nov 1, 2024, 7:47:01 PM11/1/24
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https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/10/on-the-nature-of-time/
Stephen's "Ruliad" looks and smells to me like Bruno's Universal
Dovetailer, and quite likely the same object that I call the
"Nothing" in my book "Theory of Nothing".
He seems to have rediscovered many of the things we've discussed on
this list over the years. On the other hand, his concept of "branchial
space" being knitted into something like the spacetime described by
Einstein's equations seems novel to me, and smells about right, so I
think he is worth listening to. Also his comments on computational
irreducibility and bounded computational ability of observers is also
rarely discussed (I leaned on those notions in my resolution of the
White Rabbit problem), and his takes on those matters seem fresh to
me.
I know Stephen is a controversial figure - the only person I know to
have met him personally described him as an arsehole, or words to that
effect. My response to her is that he might be an arsehole, but he's a
genius level arsehole. That was well before his NKS book. His biggest
problem is not acknowledging contributions by others, effectively
claiming vast tracts of academic knowledge for himself.
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Stephen's "Ruliad" looks and smells to me like Bruno's Universal
Dovetailer, and quite likely the same object that I call the
"Nothing" in my book "Theory of Nothing".
He seems to have rediscovered many of the things we've discussed on
this list over the years. On the other hand, his concept of "branchial
space" being knitted into something like the spacetime described by
Einstein's equations seems novel to me, and smells about right, so I
think he is worth listening to. Also his comments on computational
irreducibility and bounded computational ability of observers is also
rarely discussed (I leaned on those notions in my resolution of the
White Rabbit problem), and his takes on those matters seem fresh to
me.
I know Stephen is a controversial figure - the only person I know to
have met him personally described him as an arsehole, or words to that
effect. My response to her is that he might be an arsehole, but he's a
genius level arsehole. That was well before his NKS book. His biggest
problem is not acknowledging contributions by others, effectively
claiming vast tracts of academic knowledge for himself.
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Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile)
Principal, High Performance Coders hpc...@hpcoders.com.au
http://www.hpcoders.com.au
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Liz R
Nov 1, 2024, 10:53:37 PM11/1/24
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I've been looking at this recently, and insofar as I understand what you and he are saying, I agree with you. This graphic in particular - which happens to be how far I've got after reading ""The Concept of the Ruliad" - seems to relate to a "Brunoesque" approach.
Concerning Wolfram's arseholery and possible genius level, this isn't too surprising when you consider what Isaac Newton was
like
(by all accounts).
Cosmin Visan
Nov 2, 2024, 6:14:24 AM11/2/24
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Time is a quale in consciousness. See my paper The Quale of Time: https://philpeople.org/profiles/cosmin-visan
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