
A conversation between Gregory Chaitin and Stephen Wolfram (July 5, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Is There Diversity in Biology?
The same mathematical principle underlies the success of computer technology and the diversity of the natural world. It's the plasticity of both because they're based on the idea of software. So nature discovered software way before we did. Every living organism has softword, a d n in it. Sote soft wordis much older than our than the soft word that we write as computer programmes. The point is, you have to run as fast as you can to stay in the same place. Even if the environment doesn't change, even if the climate hasn't changed, what happens is your part of an ichology. Their organisms you eat, their organisms that eat you. All of them
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