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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What Is Complexity?

Stephen Wolfram: I was interested in how does something that we would usually identify as complexity arise in nature? He says programs are a good source of raw material for making models of things. Wolfram spent several years building this big piece of software that was sort of a predecessor to mathematical and morph language, he says.

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