Confession time: I haven’t been entirely honest with you about applying a rule to a graph in Wolfram Physics.

I’ve explained precisely how to apply a rule, but I’ve been strangely silent when it comes to where to apply the rule.

I know, it’s unlike me to be silent, right?

Time to come clean.

It turns out that the question of where to apply Wolfram’s rules is not as easily answered as you might think.

This seemingly straightforward question will take us into the philosophy of time, causality, consciousness, contingency and determinism.

And it’ll lead us towards some of the most important concepts in Wolfram Physics: the multiway graph, branchial space and causal invariance.

Check your breathing apparatus: we’re going deep.

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The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery, founder of Open Web Mind