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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Paradox of Neural Networks

I often return to game of life and just look at the things they can do with such a small you know tools that from simple rules a distributed system can create complex behavior. It makes you wonder that maybe the thing we'll call computation is simple at the base layer but when you start looking at greater and greater layers of abstraction you zoom out with blurry vision. I don't know if anyone has a good answer a good model of why stuff emergeswhy complexity emerges from a lot of simple things it's a why question, he says.

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