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

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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (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