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Gregory Chaitin: Complexity, Metabiology, Gödel, Cold Fusion, and What is Randomness?

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Exploring Mathematics, Complexity, and Biological Evolution

This chapter delves into Gregory Chaitin's pivotal contributions to mathematical logic and complexity theory, focusing on his incompleteness theorem and Chaitin's constant. It also discusses his interdisciplinary work in metabiology and his upcoming book that highlights key philosophical moments in mathematics.

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