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A conversation between Terry Sejnowski and Stephen Wolfram (August 12, 2021) Part 2

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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We're Carving Ourself Into Some Corner of This Quantum Universe of Possibilities

We have a brain that can deal with certain kinds of regularities. So we set up our will to have those kinds of regularity. We build our world around the regularities that our brains recognize. And no doubt, an evolutionary biology, you know, those regularities that we have been able to make use of, we then produce brains that are better at dealing with those kind of regularities and so on. What elevates one beyond the level of what allows one to build a taller tower is having something that has this actual structure that you can build on on top of, so to speak. But i think that still doesn't address the issue of, i mean, you're talking

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