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Re:Why This Universe? New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is... by PartiallyTyped on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:05PM (#33657754)
It’s also possible that our __models__ are simple, but the underlying reality is not, so as long as there exists some error after sufficient evaluations it is safe to say that our model’s complexity is less than the universe’s.
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Re:Why This Universe? New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is... by constantcrying on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:24PM (#33658124)
Yes, I agree. It is definitely possible that the underlying laws are extremely complex and there is absolutely no simple way to state them.

But what I think is really interesting that this extreme complexity can only be found in extremely large and small scales. E.g. Newtons laws are phenomenal at predicting the universe at "human scales". The systems which can arise in Newtonian physics can be extremely complex, but their descriptions are usually very simple. Deviations from Newtonian predictions either are very small or arise only at large/small scales.

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Re:Why This Universe? New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is... by PartiallyTyped on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:50PM (#33658669)
> Newtonian physics can be extremely complex, but their descriptions are usually very simple

IIRC Constructor theory builds on this, in a way, it defines some very basic and simple building blocks out of which the rest of the laws that govern our universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory

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