#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
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(00:00 ) – Introduction
(07:50 ) – What is complexity
(20:51 ) – Randomness in the universe
(25:12 ) – The Wolfram Physics Project
(37:14 ) – Space and time are discrete
(49:19 ) – Quantum mechanics and hypergraphs
(58:33 ) – What is intelligence
(1:09:16 ) – Computational equivalence
(1:17:36 ) – What it is like to be a cellular automata
(1:32:00 ) – Making prediction vs explanations
(1:45:20 ) – Why does the universe exist
(1:51:01 ) – The universe and rulial space
(1:59:44 ) – Does an atom have consciousness
(2:10:10 ) – Why does our universe exist
(2:18:41 ) – What is outside the ruliad
(2:29:15 ) – Automated proof systems
(2:45:10 ) – Multicomputation for biology
(3:03:41 ) – Cardano NFT collaboration with Wolfram Alpha
(3:10:41 ) – Global theory of economics
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