Some rough working notes, me thinking out loud: "The varieties of material existence": http://cognitivemedium.com/vme pic.twitter.com/g66P85yiVZ
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And some speculation about whether the notion of fundamental particles even makes sense, since there are systems in which it's possible to give two equivalent descriptions in terms of entirely different sets of fundamental particles.pic.twitter.com/r2FsiRkrdS
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A particularly strong version of this might result in a point of view in which the fundamental particles and forces barely matter at all, and what really matters is notions like universality in computation, programmability, and some sufficiently broad notion of phases of matter.
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If you read this far, thanks for indulging my thinking aloud!
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That sounds vaguely similar to Wolfram's new kind of science.
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Wolfram
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Are you thinking about the fundamental nature of the Universe, or of human thought?
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