Stephen Wolfram

And it's the same thing with these hypergraphs.

Now, if you ask me, have I found one that gives me three-dimensional space?

The answer is not yet.

So we don't know.

This is one of these things we're kind of betting against nature, so to speak.

And I have no way to know.

So there are many other properties of this kind of system that are very beautiful, actually, and very suggestive.

And it will be very elegant if this turns out to be right, because it's very clean.

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and everything gets built up.

Everything about space, everything about time, everything about matter, it's all just emergent from the properties of this extremely low-level system.

And that would be pretty cool if that's the way our universe works.

Now,

On the other hand, the thing that I find very confusing is, let's say we succeed.

Let's say we can say, this particular sort of hypergraph rewriting rule gives the universe.

Just run that hypergraph rewriting rule for enough times, and you'll get everything.

You'll get this conversation we're having.

You'll get everything.

It's that...

If we get to that point and we look at what is this thing, what is this rule that we just have that is giving us our whole universe, how do we think about that thing?