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#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Importance of Being Computationally Bonded

In our perception of what it means to exist and to have experience, it doesn't happen that way. So therefore, to exist means to be computationally bonded. The very active existence is like operating in this place that's computationally reducible. We are effectively averaging over many different branches of possible of histories of the universe. When you do that averaging over the molecules and so on, what are the aggregate laws you get? That there are aggregate laws at all is amazingly neat.

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