Constructed Theory - How Did You Get Into It?

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I ask because it strikes me as an outsider as just there was one person working on it and just published a paper on it. And then you got involved. I'm just curious how that happened. Yes, definitely. We'll actually get back to other scientists getting into constructed theory because I definitely want to ask a little bit about that later. But briefly, so you are located right now at Oxford, yes? Yes, that's right, yes. Okay. So my PhD thesis ended up being mostly, I mean, maybe one-third of it on some standard quantum information things, and the rest was a constructed theory. It turned out that there were more problems than I anticipated in the

I interview Oxford physicist Chiara Marletto, who has been working on constructor theory for several years. She's published papers on its applications to various fields, including those of information, thermodynamics, life, and probability. We discuss the origins and motivations of constructor theory, problems the theory may solve, current research programs, the universal constructor, response to potential criticisms, why constructor theory can explain more of Reality than the prevailing conception, and more.

Constructor Theory Homepage - www.constructortheory.org

Constructor Theory of Thermodynamics - http://constructortheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Thd-ArXiv-2.pdf

Constructor Theory of Probability - http://constructortheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20150883.full_.pdf

Constructor Theory of Life - http://constructortheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ct-life.pdf

Constructor Theory of Information - http://constructortheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ct-info.pdf

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