The Stephen Wolfram Podcast cover image

A conversation between Gregory Chaitin and Stephen Wolfram (July 5, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

CHAPTER

What Is Life?

i sometimes start with leibnitz, which was not my inspiration, but is, how do you say a rational reconstruction of the history would be? And at other times i start with a complexity in biology and measuring it in base pairs. That's to motivate this new mathematic definition of program size complexity. So what is life? Ah, i think the best answer is from a minard keans and e and er an ansathmary er,. There re two booksnd, there're some books by minart keans, not minar kens got, that's the economist. A, minad smith, maybe john inot smith, the biologist, right?

00:00
Transcript
Play full episode

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts

Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
App store bannerPlay store banner