Sublime

the gross behaviour of our planet, star and galaxy depend on an emergent but fundamental physical quantity: the knowledge in that scum.

According to the Standard Model, matter particles like electrons and quarks are nothing but local excitations of extended fields.

Electromagnetic forces are responsible for all of chemistry and biology.

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s

In fact, the ‘theory of everything’ is expected to inherit virtually its entire explanatory structure – its physical concepts, its language, its mathematical formalism and the form of its explanations – from the existing theories of electromagnetism, nuclear forces and gravity. Therefore we may look to this underlying structure, which we already kn

What, if any, are its ultimate limits? What sorts of environment can in principle be artificially rendered, and with what accuracy? By ‘in principle’ I mean ignoring transient limitations of technology, but taking into account all limitations that may be imposed by the principles of logic and physics.

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