
Episode 27: Chiara Marletto and Constructor Theory
The Theory of Anything
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The Importance of Constructor Theory in Physics
In your book, wouldn't it be wonderful if it were possible to take inspiration from these principles which relate to counterfactuals and imagine an entirely different way to formulate the laws of physics? And I've always been a little confused by this. The issue that I don't think I understand is why would it be seems like constructor theory would be a very valuable theory just exactly the way it is - even if it didn't turn out that the laws of motion and initial conditions were derivative of it. What is motivating the desire to see it as underpinning all of physics rather than being something new that gets added into physics and expands the way we think of physics? We don't know if
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