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A conversation between Gregory Chaitin and Stephen Wolfram (July 5, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Herman Wil and the Discourse on Metaphysics and the Concept of Complexity

i was wriating essays by beinstein, adsays by von nomann. But herman wil was another person. His book on philosophy of mathematics and natural science. These were mathematicians or mathematical physicists who had grown up in the german speaking world. And one of the good things about that is that they knew a lot philosophy. They had studied philosophy. So it's actually something i read very early,. because he mentions leibnis discourse on metaphysics and the notion of complexity in his 19 forty nine book which i adored as a child.

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