Stephen Wolfram

And the answer is because this Rulliad object, which is this entangled limit of all possible computations, there is no choice about it.

It has to exist.

There has to be such a thing.

It is in the same sense that 2 plus 2, if you define what 2 is and what plus is and so on, 2 plus 2 has to equal 4.

Yeah.

Similarly, this rulead, this limit of all possible computations, just has to be a thing that is, once you have the idea of computation, you inevitably have the rulead.

You're going to have to have a rulead, yeah.

Right.

And what's important about it, there's just one of it.

It's just this unique object.

And that unique object necessarily exists.

And then the question is, what... And then we...

Once you know that we are sort of embedded in that and taking samples of it, it's sort of inevitable that there is this thing that we can perceive that our perception of physical reality necessarily is that way, given that we are observers with the characteristics we have.

So in other words, the fact that the universe exists

is to think about it almost theologically, so to speak.

It's funny because a lot of the questions about the existence of the universe and so on, they transcend what the science of the last few hundred years has really been concerned with.

The science of the last few hundred years hasn't thought it could talk about questions like that.

And so a lot of the kind of arguments of, you know, does God exist?

Is it obvious?

I think in some sense, in some representation, it's sort of more obvious that something sort of bigger than us exists than that we exist.