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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What Are the Update Rules for Observed Chemistry?

There's a lot of work to be done on update rules. In terms of what they actually are for chemistry? Yeah, what they are for our observed chemistry. We have this beautiful system in Wolfen language for representing chemistry symbolically. And really, to understand what's going on, we're probably going to pick a particular subtype of chemistry. So got this whole network of all these molecules, having all these reactions and so on. Each sort of chemical reaction event is its own separate event. The question is, what is the chemical observer? One possible chemical observer is all you care about is did you make that particular drug molecule? What was the orientation of that molecule? These kinds

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