Venting if there was a god

[Darkover]

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck
if it looks like a system, acts like a system, and produces a system, then it probably is a system

just a heartless ruthless calculating machine

 

[chester]

if it looks like a system, acts like a system, and produces a system, then it probably is a system

What looks like a system?

 

[Darkover]

What looks like a system?

the universe is a system
he first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, so energy in our universe must remain constant and it is therefore an isolated system.

 

[BoulderSoWhat]

Look it's a System-Generating System!

AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities | Quanta Magazine

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.

www.quantamagazine.org

But I don't want to live in a donut! We need to get out of here before something eats us!!!

The universe may have a complex geometry — like a doughnut

Physicists haven’t yet ruled out the possibility that the universe has a complicated topology in which space loops back around on itself.

www.sciencenews.org