The laws of physics have a fundamental limitation to how accurately this task can be realized with systems in physical reality. For example, changing the energy on object from certain value to another value is an impossible task because of conservation of energy. Another task could be lifting a weight in a gravitational field. And other tasks could be creating tunglement out of annoying tunglement and so on. So the task is just specifying a positive, a positive transformation. And then this transformation can either be possible or impossible. And there are no things in between.
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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