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0 pointsAnimalMuppet10y ago0 comments

> His main argument is that if his cellular automatons can achieve emergent behaviour similar to real physics, then it is evidence for it being the underlying mechanism in the universe.

Then it is a hint that possibly it might be the underlying mechanism of the universe. It's not exactly evidence.

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fengwick310y ago

Yes perhaps evidence is too strong a word, though that's not what Wolfram would have you believe.

Although to be fair, it's going to be quite cumbersome to discount every other statement in a book almost a thousand pages in length.

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