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The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Dividing Lines and Observers in Computation

The chapter explores questions surrounding ordinal numbers, recursion, arithmetic, and computational complexity. It discusses the distinctions between polynomial bounded computations and decidable computations in various versions of the observer hypothesis. They also delve into the arithmetical hierarchy and the unknown aspects of the robustness of intermediate levels.

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