Below is my interview with Chiara Marletto, Research Fellow at Wolfson College and the Physics Department at Oxford University. We discuss constructor theory, a new fundamental branch of physics. We discuss the motivations for developing it, its core concepts, and the problems Marletto expects it to solve.
Below is my interview with physicist Chiara Marletto, who has been working on constructor theory for several years. She's published papers on its applications to various fields, including those of information, thermodynamics, life, and probability. We discuss the origins and motivations of constructor theory, problems the theory may solve, current research programs, the universal constructor, response to potential criticisms, why constructor theory can explain more of reality than the prevailing conception, and more.
Below is my interview with physicist David Deutsch about the universal constructor, a machine that can be programmed to cause any physically possible transformation.
Note-this interview was recorded in early 2022.
In the time since this interview was recorded, David has stated that disobedience is by far the primary reason that humans and human societies aren't universal constructors.
Below is my interview with David Deutsch, Visiting Professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University and an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. We discuss the constructor theory of information, some of its conjectured principles, the unification of classical and quantum information, and more.
Below is my two-part interview with Chiara Marletto, Research Fellow at Wolfson College and the Physics Department at Oxford University. We discuss the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics, the problem with its scale-dependence, how constructor theory allows for exact formulation of the laws of thermodynamics, the connection between information and the first law of thermodynamics, and more.
Below is my two-part interview with Vlatko Vedral, a professor of quantum information science at Oxford University. We discuss the difference between dynamical laws and principles in physics, the role that the principles of constructor theory play in discovering new dynamical laws, the constructor theory of information, his research (in collaboration with Chiara Marletto) into probing hybrid systems in which quantum mechanical objects interact with gravity, and more.
Below is my interview with Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral about future directions, open problems, and speculations about constructor theory. We discuss boundary conditions of the universe, knowledge, biological evolution, the universal constructor, free will, economics, and more.
Below is my two-part interview with Nicetu Tibau Vidal, a DPhil student at Oxford University. We discuss his research, which includes demonstrating that fermions conform to Einstein's principle of locality. We also discuss his ongoing research project of formalizing constructor theory.
Below is my interview with Sam Kuypers, a DPhil student at Oxford University. We discuss the problems with quantum field theory, how qubit field theory seems to solve some of these problems, and how constructor theory might aid the development of qubit field theory.
Below is my two-part interview with Maria Violaris, a DPhil student at Oxford University. We discuss the emergence of irreversible processes from underlying reversible laws of motion, how constructor theory allows for the exact expression of irreversible processes, the quantum homogenizer as a toy model of an irreversible process, the practical importance of understanding thermodynamics at quantum scales, Landauer's principle, future research directions in constructor theory of thermodynamics. and more.