Constructor Theory

The Deutsch Files IV.
Chapter 2
Naval Ravikant and Brett Hall in conversation with David Deutsch


David mentions his paper, available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7439 and the 18 motivations for Constructor Theory. They are:

1. Catalysis
2. Constructor Independent Laws of Physics
3. Irreversibility
4. Von Neumann’s approach
5. What is the initial state?
6. Information
7. Generalising Computation
8. The Computability of Nature
9. Why the theory of computation isn’t the whole of physics
10. Laws and principles
11. The principle of testability
12. The set of all conceivable transformations
13. Counterfactual possibility
14. Abstract constructors
15. Knowledge
16. Emergent and scale-independent laws
17. Complexity theory
18. Pragmatic considerations

Far more than one person could hope to accomplish, until we have radically better life extension technologies. But for now, I’m most intrigued by 15.

How about you?