
A conversation between Gregory Chaitin and Stephen Wolfram (July 5, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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The Evolution of Recursive Functions in Biology
A woman has to put up with being pregnant for nine months, that's already a fairly long time. So biology can't afford to allow arbitrariy long run times. The run times have to be reasonable, or the organism dies of old agedoramsing objectives. Ocursive languages are closer to biology than universal languages.
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