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A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram ISBN 9781579550196
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Stephen Wolfram ISBN 9781579550196
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This book by Stephen Wolfram has come up 6 times on Lex Fridman. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Stephen Wolfram. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2018-03-02 and the most recent from 2023-05-09. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
This work presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments---illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics---Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe. Wolfram uses his approach to tackle a remarkable array of fundamental problems in science: from the origin of the Second Law of thermodynamics, to the development of complexity in biology, the computational limitations of mathematics, the possibility of a truly fundamental theory of physics, and the interplay between free will and determinism.
“I'm deeply grateful that you wrote a new kind of science that you explored this mystery of cellular automata and inspired this one little kid in me”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Stephen Wolfram: Computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist; founder of Wolfram Research and creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language. A pioneer in studying the computational nature of reality and author of 'A New Kind of Science.'. Stephen Wolfram explains why ChatGPT works, what truth means computationally, and how observers' limits give rise to the laws of physics.
“almost 20 years ago you published A New Kind of Science where you presented a study of complexity and an approach for modeling of complex systems”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Stephen Wolfram: Computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who founded Wolfram Research, creating Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, and the Wolfram Language. He authored 'A New Kind of Science' and leads the Wolfram Physics Project. Stephen Wolfram explains how a universe built from rewriting hypergraphs and 'all possible rules' makes physics, consciousness, and even why existence happens inevitable.
“I mean when I look at a new kind of science you're now living inside history so you can't tell the story of these decades”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Stephen Wolfram: Computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist; founder/CEO of Wolfram Research (Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Language) and author of A New Kind of Science and the Wolfram Physics Project. Stephen Wolfram explains how simple computational rules on hypergraphs could generate space, time, relativity, and quantum mechanics as a Theory of Everything.
“I worked on my new kind of science project instead of exploring the computational universe and came up with things like this principle of computational equivalence”— Stephen Wolfram
The guest here is Stephen Wolfram: Physicist, computer scientist, and founder of Wolfram Research. Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram Language, and Wolfram Alpha, and author of 'A New Kind of Science.'. Stephen Wolfram explains how Wolfram Language tries to encode the world's knowledge into a single computable symbolic language.
“so in 2002 you published a new kind of science to which sort of on a personal level I can credit my love for cellular automata”— Stephen Wolfram
The guest here is Stephen Wolfram: Computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist; founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, and Wolfram Language, and author of A New Kind of Science. Stephen Wolfram explains why simple computational rules generate the universe's complexity, and unveils his quest for a fundamental theory of physics.
“in his book a new kind of science he has explored and revealed the power beauty and complexity of cellular automata”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Stephen Wolfram: Physicist, computer scientist, and entrepreneur; creator of Wolfram Alpha, Mathematica, and the Wolfram Language, and author of A New Kind of Science. Stephen Wolfram on mining the computational universe, why simple programs create complexity, and what AGI means for human purpose.
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