History of Science and Technology Q&A (September 22, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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The Importance of Consciousness in Philosophy
For a long time, political science and economic science were viewed as much closer to philosophy than the mathematical tradition. But in recent times, i've been surprised that some of the things are figuring out about stord of this computational way of understanding the world. And how those relate to kind of questions in philosophy tat, you now, the importance of consciousness in making sense of multi computation. Why is there something rather than nothing? Question has been discussed a bit, but not much in philosophy. I think we now have something of a scientific answer.
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