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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Singularity in Continuous Mathematics
In our models, and that's a little hard to understand the general activity with continuous mathematics. And what does the singularity look like? In our models, it's something very pragmatic. It's just you're applying these rules, time is moving forward, and then there comes a moment where the rules, no rules apply. So time stops. It's kind of like the universe dies. There's, you know, that nothing happens in the universe anymore. Well, in mathematics, that's a decidable theory. That's an example. And I think we're sort of the attempt to understand how this works.
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