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A conversation between Gregory Chaitin and Stephen Wolfram (July 5, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is Gurdle's Theorem a Story?

You have the impression that gurdle knew about shannon and information theory and so on? Do you have the impression he understood that stuff? Well, i had a very limited interaction with girdl but a, he did say very interestinge. And it's a paper that i wrote for an itripole information theory. That diagram is probably in the paper, i don't know. It's written in terms of shannon information theory s. This point you made about provability versus computeability, and this notion of an absolute notion and so on, i'm curious how gurdle thought about that. Because, in a sense, gurdle's theorem, you know

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