Nearly all possible lists of rules would be too lengthy and complex to be encoded in a space the size of the observable universe. By comparison, our universe’s rules seem likely to be able to be written on a t-shirt or two, especially when you consider how many of the rules are structurally similar. So, yes, I consider that simple. Simple to build into a universe simulator, if not simple for a human to inutit. (I’m not sure what you mean by “macroscopic phenomena… have their own rules”.)
I shudder too! There may be simpler possible rules, but the number of sapience-permitting rules much simpler than ours is probably very small. (And it’s certainly vanishingly small relative to the number of sapience-permitting rules more complex than ours.)
For now, we can combine ‘exceptionless’ with ‘uniform across space and time’, unless someone has a thought about how to distinguish the two.
Yes. My expectation is that we live in a bubble of simplicity within a more complex structure. I think the koan is meant to be a generalization about our own observable universe (hence its temporal character), not speculation about our world’s metaphyical substrate. Though it’s obviously at least a clue.
I agree there are costs to saving local determinism (and serious unsolved questions in the neighborhood), but it’s still an extremely plausible model. And when you combine it with non-local determinism, we’ll have accounted for all the plausible hypotheses. Determinism rather than locality is the point I want to emphasize, since it only requires that we deny Collapse interpretations.
EPR doesn’t challenge MWI-style local determinism. (Though it does limit the usefulness of that knowledge, since we don’t know which part of the wave function we’re in.)
The purpose of the rules is actually to change reality, at least as we perceive it.
I’m not seeing why that disagrees with the wiki. One goal is just more proximate than the other, and more specific to the case at hand. The purpose of a hammer is to improve human life; but the purpose of a hammer is also to put nails in stuff.
Nearly all possible lists of rules would be too lengthy and complex to be encoded in a space the size of the observable universe. By comparison, our universe’s rules seem likely to be able to be written on a t-shirt or two, especially when you consider how many of the rules are structurally similar. So, yes, I consider that simple. Simple to build into a universe simulator, if not simple for a human to inutit. (I’m not sure what you mean by “macroscopic phenomena… have their own rules”.)
I shudder too! There may be simpler possible rules, but the number of sapience-permitting rules much simpler than ours is probably very small. (And it’s certainly vanishingly small relative to the number of sapience-permitting rules more complex than ours.)
For now, we can combine ‘exceptionless’ with ‘uniform across space and time’, unless someone has a thought about how to distinguish the two.
Yes. My expectation is that we live in a bubble of simplicity within a more complex structure. I think the koan is meant to be a generalization about our own observable universe (hence its temporal character), not speculation about our world’s metaphyical substrate. Though it’s obviously at least a clue.
I agree there are costs to saving local determinism (and serious unsolved questions in the neighborhood), but it’s still an extremely plausible model. And when you combine it with non-local determinism, we’ll have accounted for all the plausible hypotheses. Determinism rather than locality is the point I want to emphasize, since it only requires that we deny Collapse interpretations.
EPR doesn’t challenge MWI-style local determinism. (Though it does limit the usefulness of that knowledge, since we don’t know which part of the wave function we’re in.)
I’m not seeing why that disagrees with the wiki. One goal is just more proximate than the other, and more specific to the case at hand. The purpose of a hammer is to improve human life; but the purpose of a hammer is also to put nails in stuff.