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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Principle of Computational Equivalence Can Save a Planet
In the first chapter of a science fiction book, the Earth is consumed by these things called Nance. But in the end, it's saved by this thing called the principle of computational equivalence. And so that has the implication that our brains, other things in physics, they're all ultimately equivalent in the computations they can do. So there isn't some fundamental difference between human consciousness and electrons moving around on a rock.
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