{"id":230728,"date":"2026-02-06T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/what-ultimately-is-there-metaphysics-and-the-ruliad"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:10:06","slug":"what-ultimately-is-there-metaphysics-and-the-ruliad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/what-ultimately-is-there-metaphysics-and-the-ruliad","title":{"rendered":"What Ultimately Is There? Metaphysics and the Ruliad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-ultimately-is-there-metaphysics-and-the-ruliad2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Wolfram shares surprising new ideas and results from a scientific approach to metaphysics. Discusses time, spacetime, computational irreducibility, significance of the observer, quantum mechanics and multiway systems, ruliad, laws of nature, objective reality, existence, mathematical reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Wolfram shares surprising new ideas and results from a scientific approach to metaphysics. Discusses time, spacetime, computational irreducibility, significance of the observer, quantum mechanics and multiway systems, ruliad, laws of nature, objective reality, existence, mathematical reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}