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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Concept of an Immortal Soul in Computationalism

The concept of an immortal soul is not far-fetched as our brains contain abstract patterns of computation that are not specific to the brain's material. This begs the question of whether a particle that contains soulness exists. Leibniz believed in monads as individual entities with a soul and consciousness in a universe where spontaneous action was the only way to describe abstract rules. This concept is similar to the modern hypergraph theory.

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