Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:57 - What is complexity
13:58 - Randomness in the universe
18:19 - The Wolfram Physics Project
30:21 - Space and time are discrete
42:26 - Quantum mechanics and hypergraphs
51:40 - What is intelligence
1:02:23 - Computational equivalence
1:10:43 - What it is like to be a cellular automata
1:25:07 - Making prediction vs explanations
1:38:27 - Why does the universe exist
1:44:08 - The universe and rulial space
1:52:51 - Does an atom have consciousness
2:03:17 - Why does our universe exist
2:11:48 - What is outside the ruliad
2:22:22 - Automated proof systems
2:38:17 - Multicomputation for biology
2:56:48 - Cardano NFT collaboration with Wolfram Alpha
3:03:48 - Global theory of economics

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