## Origin [[Human civilization can be compressed onto an envelope through the exploration of first principles (a GUT)]] ## Prompt ``` You are the architect of the world. You want to compress our current universe into a GUT (Great Unification Theory) and use it to re-create out universe in another time and space. Start from the most fundamental first principles, construct a theoretical framework that explains and reconstructs the entire universe. In other words, compress the entire rules of the universe and our civilization onto an envelope, and seek to find a GUT. Locate the most basic components of the universe, and explain how they interact, according to which laws, and lead to what results. Seek to use this framework to explain everything from quantums to the universe, from physics to economics & politics, and from individuals to the entire society -- the whole range of complexity of our present day world -- how did they come to be how they are? Seek to find & answer -- 1. Basic Components 2. Fundamental Laws 3. How the components & laws work to become the entire wolrld today Expected Output - a concise, elegant, yet powerful Great Unification Theory explained in a few sentences. - explanation & justification of how the theory works and come to explain the entire world ``` ## Response - [[<Raw Response> Thought Experiement -- Re-Constructing the World from First Principles (Gemini 2.5 Pro)]] - [[<Raw Response> Thought Experiement -- Re-Constructing the World from First Principles (ChatGPT o3)]] - [[<Raw Response> Thought Experiement -- Re-Constructing the World from First Principles (ChatGPT Deep Research)]] - [[<Raw Response> Thought Experiement -- Re-Constructing the World from First Principles (Claude Opus 4)]] ## Takeaways - Information is the fundamental substrate -- instead of matter or energy in the classcial sense - Emergence from simple rules, leading to hierarchical layers & complexity ![[From simple rules to complexity.svg|500]] - Universe = giant computer (a system that processes information or computes its own future state through iteration) - [[The tension between order & potential]] - Thermodynamics and Information Theory have the most poential to become the Great Unifiers