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#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
Lex Fridman Podcast
Complexity of Understanding in Computational Systems
Building abstract abstractions from basic elements like sand can lead to the creation of advanced technologies like computers, but the journey may be long. The critical question is whether human brains can truly grasp the complexity of these advancements. It requires constructing a human understandable narrative, a task that the speaker believes is possible, though challenging. The speaker acknowledges facing current limitations in understanding certain aspects of computation but expresses hope that it will be feasible to comprehend these systems. The concept of computational irreducibility, emerging from computational equivalence, hints at the intricate nature in which computational processes function and the potential for creatures to understand themselves through these computations.
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