Guide: How to Read The Code of All Things

This web edition publishes the book as a paired bilingual reading path rather than as a loose blog series.

The central claim is simple: if natural language is becoming executable, then ordinary people need a clearer model of the rules that sit underneath any instruction we give to an Agent. A powerful instruction is never only a prompt. It is a small operating rule inside a larger physical, biological, social, and symbolic world.

How to read this edition

Start with the preface, then read Chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 1 explains why natural language is becoming executable; Chapter 2 explains why every cognitive model can only keep approaching the underlying rules. The table of contents shows the full architecture of the book, while later chapters will be polished and published progressively.

Current publication note

The English version is not being released as a rushed machine translation. The guide, table of contents, preface, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 are published first, with page-by-page links back to the Chinese original.

Core model

• Physical primary rules: the universe-level constraints every system must obey.
• Life primary rules: the carbon-based operating scripts that preserve homeostasis, survival, repair, and reproduction.
• Social coordination rules: legal, ethical, monetary, institutional, and cultural protocols that let groups reduce disorder and cooperate.
• Symbolic and cognitive rules: language, mathematics, logic, concepts, and models as compressed maps of reality.
• Agent execution rules: goals, boundaries, permissions, tool use, and safety constraints written for digital actors.