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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Does Plus Exist?

The existence of mathematics is something where given a definition of terms, what follows from that definition inevitably follows. The point is that it is not a thing of a, I don't know, the, you know, an elephant or things like that. It is different kind of thing to say does plus exist. That's a powerful thing. But in some sense, there is no such thing as 'do plus exist,' because we can define any term at all.

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