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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There Randomness Underneath the Universe?

Is it possible to for sure know that our universe does not at the fundamental level have randomness? Is it possible to conclusively say, there's no randomness at the bottom? Well, it's an interesting question. The thing that I think I can say fairly definitively is, if there was sort of an extra dice being thrown, it's something that doesn't need to be there. Now, could you add that in as an extra little featureoid, you know, without breaking the universe? Probably. But in fact, almost certainly yes.

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