What’s striking here is the convergence on a minimal axiomatic kernel (Lean) as the only scalable way to guarantee coherent reasoning. Some of us working on foundational physics are exploring the same methodological principle. In the “Functional Universe” framework[0], for example, we start from a small set of axioms and attempt to derive physical structure from that base.
The domains are different, but the strategy is similar: don’t rely on heuristics or empirical patching; define a small trusted core of axioms and generate coherent structure compositionally from there.
The domains are different, but the strategy is similar: don’t rely on heuristics or empirical patching; define a small trusted core of axioms and generate coherent structure compositionally from there.
[0] https://voxleone.github.io/FunctionalUniverse