Lex Fridman Podcast

#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

Oct 27, 2021

03:45:26

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The Concept of an Immortal Soul in Computationalism

02:49

Nature's Secret to Creating Complexity

00:20

Quantum Mechanics

04:23

Is the Universe a Turing Machine?

02:05

Introduction

2min

The Fight Camp Boxing Bag Review

2min

How to Get a Free $75 Sponsor Job Credit on Indeed

3min

What Is Complexity?

4min

How Does Nature Make Complexity?

3min

Is There a Rule Behind It?

2min

Is the Center Column of Rule 30 Repeatable?

2min

Is There a Complexity in Chaos Theory?

4min

Is There Randomness Underneath the Universe?

2min

10.

Why Does the Universe Exist?

2min

11.

Hypergraph Model

4min

12.

The Model of Hypergraphs and Multi-Computational Reducibility

4min

13.

How to Calculate the 10 to the Minus 100 Meters?

5min

14.

The Distinctness of Space

3min

15.

The Story of Consciousness

3min

16.

Is It Really Pure Motion?

3min

17.

Is the Universe a Turing Machine?

2min

18.

The Core Idea of Quantum Mechanics

6min

19.

What's the Conscious Experience?

4min

20.

Is the Weather Intelligent?

2min

21.

Is There a Consistent Conscious Intelligence?

2min

22.

General Relativity and Newtonian Mechanics

3min

23.

Consciousness Is Not That Special

2min

24.

The Principle of Computational Equivalence Can Save a Planet

6min

25.

A Different Kind of Consciousness?

4min

26.

How Do You Get Inside That Subset of Cellular Automata?

2min

27.

Is There a Way to Merge With the Cellular Automaton?

4min

28.

Relativity and Time Dilation

3min

29.

Using Up Computing in Relativity

2min

30.

Quantum Mechanics

4min

31.

Is It Possible to Measure the Maximum Entanglement Speed?

4min

32.

The Inverse Square Law in Optics, Is That Possible?

4min

33.

Is It Possible to Make Predictions Against Explanations?

2min

34.

Is It a Camber in Explosion of Physicists?

4min

35.

All Possible Rules in All Possible Ways

2min

36.

The Infinite Group Void

2min

37.

The Universe Is Running All Possible Rules

3min

38.

Is There a Relatively Large Number of Universes in Rural Space?

2min

39.

Is There a Different Perception of the Universe?

2min

40.

The Immortal Soul Concept

3min

41.

Is There a Consciousness?

2min

42.

What Is It Like to Be a Conscious Being?

2min

43.

Is Consciousness a Theory of Physics?

6min

44.

Why Does the Universe Exist?

3min

45.

Why Does the Universe Exist?

2min

46.

Does Plus Exist?

2min

47.

Is There a Formal System That We Can Certainly Imagine?

2min

48.

The Hyper-Rully Ad Footnotes

3min

49.

The Foundation of Mathematics

1min

50.

The Problem of Computational Irreducibility in Mathematics

6min

51.

Is There a Heuristic for Automated Theorem Proving?

2min

52.

The Singularity in Continuous Mathematics

6min

53.

Do You Know What an Obstruction Means in Proof Space?

5min

54.

The Emergence of Emergent Laws in Multi-Computing in Physics

3min

55.

What Is a Chemical Synthesis?

3min

56.

What Are the Update Rules for Observed Chemistry?

5min

57.

The Dynamic Aspect of the Multi-Way Turing Machine

6min

58.

Molecular Biology

3min

59.

Can I Compute the Primes With Molecules?

2min

60.

Cardano Collaboration With Wolfram Wolfram Alpha

2min

61.

Symbolic Expressions and Transformation Rules for Symbolical Expressions

5min

62.

How Does Economics Fundamentally Work?

5min

63.

Is It an Axiomatic Theory?

4min

64.

Wolfen Language and Mathematica - The Oracle for Blockchains

2min

65.

Blockchain Is Another Rethinking of Computing

6min

66.

Are You Building Artifacts From the Future?

3min

67.

The Field of Complexity

2min

68.

The Seat of Complexity to Santa Fe

2min

69.

Is There a Wolfram Institute?

5min

70.

A New Kind of Science

5min

71.

The Challenges of Basic Science and Rheology

2min

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:50) – What is complexity
(20:51) – Randomness in the universe
(25:12) – The Wolfram Physics Project
(37:14) – Space and time are discrete
(49:19) – Quantum mechanics and hypergraphs
(58:33) – What is intelligence
(1:09:16) – Computational equivalence
(1:17:36) – What it is like to be a cellular automata
(1:32:00) – Making prediction vs explanations
(1:45:20) – Why does the universe exist
(1:51:01) – The universe and rulial space
(1:59:44) – Does an atom have consciousness
(2:10:10) – Why does our universe exist
(2:18:41) – What is outside the ruliad
(2:29:15) – Automated proof systems
(2:45:10) – Multicomputation for biology
(3:03:41) – Cardano NFT collaboration with Wolfram Alpha
(3:10:41) – Global theory of economics

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

The Concept of an Immortal Soul in Computationalism

Nature's Secret to Creating Complexity

Quantum Mechanics

Is the Universe a Turing Machine?

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