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Fallible Animals Episode 5: What is a Constructor?

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Constructa Theory and the Fallible Animals Podcast

Constructa Theory allows us to ask if it is possible, in principle, to build a machine such that it is capable of causing any conceivable and possible transformation. This device would be the ultimate technology, at least I think. As far as I know, there's no law of physics that forbids the creation of such a machine. One research program for either Constructa Theory or some other theory would be to show how such a machine could be built and why it's possible.

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