Supports· moderateZW-E012
Wolfram in his own words: the ruliad, the derivation claim, and the circularity
- what the source states
- "We seem to be able to derive—essentially from the structure of the ruliad—the core laws of twentieth-century physics (general relativity, quantum mechanics and the Second Law) just on the basis of two features of us as observers: that we're computationally bounded, and that we believe we're persistent in time." On defining observers: identifying persistence requires equivalencing that "is at least on the face of it circular," and "we'll have to ground this circularity in some kind of further assumption."
- what we infer
- Both the ambition and the admitted soft spot, from the same essay. The hedged verb ("we seem to be able to derive") is doing real work and is preserved here deliberately: the program itself does not claim theorem status for the derivation.
- limitations
- Self-published; no referee has checked any step of the claimed derivations.