Emily Adlam

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Emily Adlam: Reality Is a Completed Puzzle, Not a Flowing River · 11 Apr 2025 podcast

Um but you know, with that said, you can also formulate an equivalent of uh uh or equivalent of the process matrix formalism in in purely classical physics.

It's called the process function formalism.

So that's perhaps our concept.

a bit clearer, you don't have to worry about the Bourne rule and measurements, but you still have this this idea that you can think about general causal processes without necessarily imposing a pre existing space-time structure on them.

Uh Humean supervenience is the idea that uh the world is just a distribution of categorical properties over space-time.

It's just, you know, one thing and another thing and another thing.

There's no sort of deeper structural connections.

Uh and so

uh everything else, including things like the laws of nature and the fact facts about causation, have to in some sense uh depend on or supervene on this distribution of of of of actual facts.

So for example, the Humeans will say that, you know, the laws of nature don't make things be the way they are.

All that all the laws are are just sort of convenient descriptions of the way things happen to be.

They're just the best systematization of whatever

has actually happened.

Uh yes.

Well, I mean, the way I have uh way I've formulated that in the past is, you know, we start from some space of possible courses of history, you know, which might be an ensemble of, you know, Humean mosaics uh composed of distributions of facts across space-time.

And then we have constraints which uh determine possible uh

p the determine which uh elements of that set are allowed by the laws of nature, um and then

Some element of that set is going to be selected and made actual.

So we have a sort of space of possibilities.

The constraints narrow down the possibilities and then one constraint is is somehow selected.

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