If we cannot answer the annoying question of why there is something rather than nothing, perhaps we can at least answer why there is only something rather than everything. Perhaps existence is the default.
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A constructor is the limit converged to by a sequence of substrates all of which imperfectly perform a transformation. A task is closer to a function but can have many outputs for 1 input. Computation: Abstract->A Measurement: Concrete->A Preparation: A->C Transformation: C->C
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Does that imply that a constructor is an approximate specification of a combination of operators (what's a substrate?), or is it the continuous limit of a series of discrete operators, or something else? (What does it mean to perform a transformation imperfectly?)
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