I’m still not quite sure why the lightcone theorem is a “foundation” for natural abstraction (it looks to me like a nice concrete example on which you could apply techniques) but I think I should just wait for future posts, since I don’t really have any concrete questions at the moment.
I’m still not quite sure why the lightcone theorem is a “foundation” for natural abstraction (it looks to me like a nice concrete example on which you could apply techniques)
My impression is that it being a concrete example is the why. “What is the right framework to use?” and “what is the environment-structure in which natural abstractions can be defined?” are core questions of this research agenda, and this sort of multi-layer locality-including causal model is one potential answer.
The fact that it loops-in the speed of causal influence is also suggestive — it seems fundamental to the structure of our universe, crops up in a lot of places, so the proposition that natural abstractions are somehow downstream of it is interesting.
Okay, I understand how that addresses my edit.
I’m still not quite sure why the lightcone theorem is a “foundation” for natural abstraction (it looks to me like a nice concrete example on which you could apply techniques) but I think I should just wait for future posts, since I don’t really have any concrete questions at the moment.
My impression is that it being a concrete example is the why. “What is the right framework to use?” and “what is the environment-structure in which natural abstractions can be defined?” are core questions of this research agenda, and this sort of multi-layer locality-including causal model is one potential answer.
The fact that it loops-in the speed of causal influence is also suggestive — it seems fundamental to the structure of our universe, crops up in a lot of places, so the proposition that natural abstractions are somehow downstream of it is interesting.