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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is Consciousness a Theory of Physics?

I think the difficulty is that, you know, okay, so in sort of people who talk about consciousness, there's some level which it's a conscious being. So let's get to why the universe exists. And then we can talk about what these models of physics kind of show you about other kinds of things like molecular computing and so on. Yes, that's good. Why does the universe exist? Okay, so we finally sort of more or less set the stage. We've got this idea of this really add of this object that is made from following all possible rules. It's not just this incoherent mess. It's got all this entangled structure in it, and so on

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