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Logan Chipkin: Constructor Theory is our deepest theory in physics. He says it's not some impenetrable labyrinth of mathematics and academic jargon. You don't need a degree or any other credential to understand its ideas, he says. "You have the accumulated knowledge of our entire civilization at your fingertips"

We motivate and introduce Constructor Theory, humanity's first Theory of Everything (or so I claim). We explain what the founder of Constructor Theory, David Deutsch, calls the prevailing conception, and why it is inadequate in capturing and explaining many phenomena in nature, such as evolution by natural selection, the growth of knowledge, and various principles that we hold to be true. We briefly discuss why Constructor Theory allows for a wider range of phenomena than does the prevailing conception.

Foundational Paper on Constructor Theory (preprint) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7439.pdf

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