#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality Lex Fridman Podcast

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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OUTLINE:

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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