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#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

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Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and
theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram
Research, a company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram
Language, and the new Wolfram Physics project. He is the author
of several books including A New Kind of Science, which on a
personal note was one of the most influential books in my journey
in computer science and artificial intelligence.

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EPISODE LINKS:

Stephen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephen_wolfram

Stephen’s Website: https://www.stephenwolfram.com/

Wolfram Research Twitter:
https://twitter.com/WolframResearch

Wolfram Research YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/WolframResearch

Wolfram Research Website: https://www.wolfram.com/

Wolfram Alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/

A New Kind of Science (book): https://amzn.to/34JruB2

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

04:16 – Communicating with an alien intelligence

12:11 – Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey

29:06 – What is computation?

44:54 – Physics emerging from computation

1:14:10 – Simulation

1:19:23 – Fundamental theory of physics

1:28:01 – Richard Feynman

1:39:57 – Role of ego in science

1:47:21 – Cellular automata

2:15:08 – Wolfram language

2:55:14 – What is intelligence?

2:57:47 – Consciousness

3:02:36 – Mortality

3:05:47 – Meaning of life