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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Principle of Computational Equivalence Is Obscure

In the space of all computers, computations with that capacity are generic in some sense. They're much sier to find than you might have thought. And thereis no way to simplify the the typical one into something that you can just leap ahead,. I mean, principle of computational equivalence, one of its predictions, in effect, is that universal computation will be ubiquitous. But it's a little bit of a different statement to say, if you are presented with this system and it is fed tis even this very simple programme, then it will already do something complicated. So it's a couple, a couple of additional steps. Yet one ofte one of the key predictions, is

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