Sarah Walker

And I remember pointing out to him, I was like, well, computation is your turtle. And I think it's a weird turtle to have.

And I remember pointing out to him, I was like, well, computation is your turtle. And I think it's a weird turtle to have.

And I remember pointing out to him, I was like, well, computation is your turtle. And I think it's a weird turtle to have.

It's totally fine to have a turtle. Everyone has a turtle. You can't build a theory without a turtle. So it depends on the problem you want to describe. And actually, the reason I can't get behind... Steven's ontology is I don't know what question he's trying to answer. And without a question to answer, I don't understand why you're building a theory of reality.

It's totally fine to have a turtle. Everyone has a turtle. You can't build a theory without a turtle. So it depends on the problem you want to describe. And actually, the reason I can't get behind... Steven's ontology is I don't know what question he's trying to answer. And without a question to answer, I don't understand why you're building a theory of reality.

It's totally fine to have a turtle. Everyone has a turtle. You can't build a theory without a turtle. So it depends on the problem you want to describe. And actually, the reason I can't get behind... Steven's ontology is I don't know what question he's trying to answer. And without a question to answer, I don't understand why you're building a theory of reality.

Well, I started working on the origin of life. And I think what my challenge was there was no one knew what life was. And so you can't really talk about the origination of something if you don't know what it is. And so the way I would approach it is if you want to understand what life is, then proving that physics is solving the origin of life.

Well, I started working on the origin of life. And I think what my challenge was there was no one knew what life was. And so you can't really talk about the origination of something if you don't know what it is. And so the way I would approach it is if you want to understand what life is, then proving that physics is solving the origin of life.

Well, I started working on the origin of life. And I think what my challenge was there was no one knew what life was. And so you can't really talk about the origination of something if you don't know what it is. And so the way I would approach it is if you want to understand what life is, then proving that physics is solving the origin of life.

So there's the theory of what life is, but there's the actual demonstration that that theory is an accurate description of the phenomena you aim to describe. So again, they're the same problem. It's not like I can decouple origin of life from what life is. It's like that is the problem.

So there's the theory of what life is, but there's the actual demonstration that that theory is an accurate description of the phenomena you aim to describe. So again, they're the same problem. It's not like I can decouple origin of life from what life is. It's like that is the problem.

So there's the theory of what life is, but there's the actual demonstration that that theory is an accurate description of the phenomena you aim to describe. So again, they're the same problem. It's not like I can decouple origin of life from what life is. It's like that is the problem.

um and i the the point i guess i'm making about having a question is no matter what slice of reality you take what regularity of nature you're going to try to describe there will be there there will be an abstraction that unifies that structure of reality um hopefully um and and that will have a fundamental layer to it right because you have to explain something in terms of something else.

um and i the the point i guess i'm making about having a question is no matter what slice of reality you take what regularity of nature you're going to try to describe there will be there there will be an abstraction that unifies that structure of reality um hopefully um and and that will have a fundamental layer to it right because you have to explain something in terms of something else.

um and i the the point i guess i'm making about having a question is no matter what slice of reality you take what regularity of nature you're going to try to describe there will be there there will be an abstraction that unifies that structure of reality um hopefully um and and that will have a fundamental layer to it right because you have to explain something in terms of something else.

But so if I want to explain life, for example, then my fundamental description of nature has to be something I think that has to do with time being fundamental. But if I wanted to describe, I don't know, the sort of interactions of matter and light, you know, I have elementary particles be fundamental.

But so if I want to explain life, for example, then my fundamental description of nature has to be something I think that has to do with time being fundamental. But if I wanted to describe, I don't know, the sort of interactions of matter and light, you know, I have elementary particles be fundamental.

But so if I want to explain life, for example, then my fundamental description of nature has to be something I think that has to do with time being fundamental. But if I wanted to describe, I don't know, the sort of interactions of matter and light, you know, I have elementary particles be fundamental.

If I want to describe electricity and magnetism in the 1800s, I have to have waves be fundamental, right? So like you are in quantum mechanics, like it's a wave function that's fundamental because that's the sort of explanatory paradigm of your theory, right? So I guess I don't know what problem saying computation is fundamental solves.

If I want to describe electricity and magnetism in the 1800s, I have to have waves be fundamental, right? So like you are in quantum mechanics, like it's a wave function that's fundamental because that's the sort of explanatory paradigm of your theory, right? So I guess I don't know what problem saying computation is fundamental solves.