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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
Lex Fridman Podcast
All Possible Rules in All Possible Ways
So we've got this model for the universe. We've got a particular rule and we get the universe. And I realized, well, actually, what if the thing could be using all possible rules? What if at every step in addition to saying apply a particular rule at all places in this hypergraph,. One could say, just take all possible rules and apply all possible rules at all possible places in thishypergraph. Okay. So it isn't the case that you can just get from anywhere to anywhere. There's this whole entangled structure of what can lead to what - there's a definite structure that's produced. It is the limit of the limits of kind of all possible rules being
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