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The Tim Ferriss Show

#637: Stephen Wolfram — Personal Productivity Systems, Richard Feynman Stories, Computational Thinking as a Superpower, Perceiving a Branching Universe, and The Ruliad... The Biggest Object in Metascience

Nov 24, 2022
01:45:19

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Quick takeaways

  • The universe is composed of discrete atoms of space, and all matter and phenomena arise from interactions within this structure.
  • Our perception of a definite thread of experience in a branching universe is a result of how our computationally bounded minds sample the Ruliead, the limit of all possible computations.

Deep dives

The Structure of Space and the Nature of Matter

Space is not empty but made up of discrete atoms of space. All matter and phenomena in the universe are the result of interactions within this underlying structure.

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