Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)
The Theory of Anything
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The Argument for Computational Universality
"We know that computational universality boils down to a very small set of statements. Nothing everything in nature can be explained in terms of computation," he says. "It's really hard to see how we could come up with a theory that humans couldn't understand" The secret is that there is some sort of at least one arrow connection that when humans try to understand things, and I try to understand them as algorithms,. And it's something more than an algorithm but it's never less than an algorithm."
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