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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

They’re used to keep records, specify value in commerce, define how resources should be allocated, determine how governance should happen, and countless other things. No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. But there is a subtlety here. Last[#][[1]]], GrayLevel[0.5,

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. And just like the speed of light governs the maximum rate at which effects can propagate in physical space, so similarly in our models there’s a “ maximum entanglement speed ” at which effects can propagate in branchial space. For hypergraphs, it’s isomorphism.

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