His theory of everything is (weakly) emergentist rather than reductive. Richard Dawkins's refinement of Darwinian evolutionary theory and the modern evolutionary synthesis, especially the ideas of replicator and meme as they integrate with Popperian problem-solving (the epistemological strand).(" The theory of computation is now the quantum theory of computation.") Alan Turing's theory of computation, especially as developed in Deutsch's "Turing principle", where Turing's Universal Turing machine is replaced by Deutsch's universal quantum computer.Karl Popper's epistemology, especially its anti- inductivism and its requiring a realist (non-instrumental) interpretation of scientific theories, and its emphasis on taking seriously those bold conjectures that resist being falsified.Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, "The first and most important of the four strands".This interpretation, which he calls the multiverse hypothesis, is one of a four-strand Theory of Everything (TOE). The book expands on his views of quantum mechanics and its implications for understanding reality. His follow-up book, The Beginning of Infinity, was published in 2011. The Fabric of Reality is a 1997 book by physicist David Deutsch.
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