In the early days of the Wolfram Physics Project, Stephen Wolfram seemed to be seeking a single rule that, when applied to the hypergraph, could generate our universe.

More recently, however, Wolfram has promoted the idea of the ruliad, the application of every possible rule to the hypergraph.

So I asked Jonathan Gorard, who was instrumental in the founding of the Wolfram Physics Project, whether all rules might be applied to generate our universe, or whether he was searching for one rule to rule them all.

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Stephen Wolfram’s 2010 TED talk [ Ссылка ] in which he said he was committed “to see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe”.

Jonathan Gorard

- Jonathan Gorard at The Wolfram Physics Project [ Ссылка ]
- Jonathan Gorard at Cardiff University [ Ссылка ]
- Jonathan Gorard on Twitter [ Ссылка ]

- The Centre for Applied Compositionality [ Ссылка ]
- The Wolfram Physics Project [ Ссылка ]

Concepts mentioned by Jonathan

- Equivalence class [ Ссылка ]
- Congruence class [ Ссылка ]
- Lagrangian mechanics [ Ссылка ]
- Hamiltonian mechanics [ Ссылка ]
- Teleology [ Ссылка ]
- Ontology [ Ссылка ]
- Axiomatic view of mathematics – top-down [ Ссылка ]
- Constructivist view of mathematics – bottom-up [ Ссылка ]
- Domain of discourse [ Ссылка ]
- Intuitionism [ Ссылка ]
- Algorithmic information theory [ Ссылка ]

Image

- Stele from Retortillo [ Ссылка ] by Emilio Gómez Fernández [ Ссылка ] licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 [ Ссылка ]

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