The Constructive Theory of Information does help with existing theories in situations where there is no new physics involved. So for example, you can say that regardless of the fuel that the rocket uses, if you have this amount of fuel, you cannot reach more than a certain height. And similarly, when you have information being exchanged between systems like gravitational field and electromagnetic field and so on under quantum theory, only parts of the system are understood exactly. The rest on the medium that is transferring the force or whatever it is from one well-understood system to another well-understanding system isn't well understood.
This is my interview with David Deutsch, Visiting Professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University and an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. We discuss the constructor theory of information, some of its conjectured principles, the unification of classical and quantum information, and more.
Constructor Theory of Information paper - https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1405/1405.5563.pdf
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