Stephen Wolfram: What Ultimately Is There? Metaphysics and the Ruliad

Описание: Stephen reads a recent blog from https://writings.stephenwolfram.com and then answers questions live from his viewers.

Read the blog along with Stephen: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2...

0:00 Start Stream
1:11 Stephen begins reading
1:55 Moving Metaphysics from Philosophy to Science
3:44 The Foundations of Physics
6:34 Time and Spacetime
11:45 The Phenomenon of Computational Irreducibility
16:07 The Significance of the Observer
20:48 Quantum Mechanics and Multiway Systems
24:50 The Concept of the Ruliad
28:48 Observers in the Ruliad and the Laws of Nature
33:04 The Question of Objective Reality
40:04 The Beginning and End of Time
46:06 Why Does Anything Actually Exist?
54:20 Mathematical Reality
1:01:03 Observers in the Vastness of the Ruliad
1:08:24 Developing a Science of Metaphysics
1:11:11 Q&A Begins
1:11:21 What is ontological "real" is determined by the scale of the Markovian observer.
1:12:04 My question: if all rule sets are running simultaneously, is there any randomness there? For example, are all irrationals being generated? Are there random "mutations"? If yes, it seems order would exist in a sea of randomness.
1:14:32 Since space appears to be a "nothing" (at least nonrelativistically), wouldn't this suggest something is canceling to create this apparent "zero"?
1:21:51 ​So math is discovered, not invented?
1:25:49 Do you think that metaphysics could ever become purely a matter of science, or will it always be part-philosophy?
1:34:02 Can there be such a thing as pure science?... that is: science which does not rely on any philosophical assumptions concerning the nature of observation
1:35:57 Philosophers such as Kant, Wittgenstein, and Kripke understand rules to be imperatives that can be followed or violated; understood or misunderstood. Do you think that this also applies to the computational rules of the ruliad, or are they immune from such deviations?
1:42:40 What's the computational metaphysics research program? Are they doing simulations, and if so, of what?
1:50:13 What is your own current best take on how the idea of the ruliad could turn out to be wrong?
1:51:53 You introduce the very helpful concept of an 'eme' as individual atoms of existence, which everything in the ruled is comprised of. Emes sound quite similar to Leibniz's monads, which are indivisible non-physical building blocks of all reality. According to Leibniz's Monadology, the universe is accordingly comprised of just one element. Do you share this monism, according to which even space, time, and matter are ultimately all illusions or do you think he goes too far?
1:58:45 Is the Ruliad an a priori necessary claim regarding the ultimate shape of the pure epistemic process that cannot be avoided if one actually follows through with all the unfolding implications of the initial fact that all there ever was were directly given discernibilities/rules/state-changes? Or is the ruliad a claim beyond the pure shape of epistemology, i.e., a claim on the things in themselves, i.e., a statement about the fundamental nature of an assumed or inferred or deduced substrate reality?
2:01:30 is rule 30 reversible in theory?
2:02:24 Is metaphysics the singularity of physics?
2:02:44 How fast is the Ruliad growing in respect to the hypergraph of our known universe?
2:06:14 As a software developer, I'm used to complex logic, but the depth of this subject matter is truly on another level. It's fascinating to observe. Hat off to all of you
2:07:21 This might be a dumb question, but is it possible for a "Platonic ideal" hypergraph that can be split into all ruliad space? I am not sure if that makes sense haha
2:07:56 Zer0XoL: What would Turing think about your ideas, you think?
2:13:32 End Stream

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