The Importance of Establishing Concepts Like Measurement and Distinguishing Between Outcomes of an Experiment

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It is possible Constructive Theory, as we conceive of it, isn't true. And that somebody invents a theory of physics which violates the principles of Constructive Theory. But I don't think that's going to happen. I think that future theories are going to conform to Constructive Theory - but only if they can be testable in some sense beyond our present concepts.

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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