Podcast Episodes

Think like an alien with Stephen Wolfram

Episode 78

Different observers, from different regions of the ruliad, experience the universe in different ways.

To what extent can these different observers communicate their different experiences?

Can dogs, wit…

Published on 14 hours ago

Ruliad + observer = physics ... also aliens

Episode 77

The ruliad is every possible computation. What could you possibly say about such an enormous, all-encompassing object?

Well, that’s where we come in.

Particular observers sample the ruliad in particula…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

How to simplify the causal graph

Episode 76

The hypergraphs generated by Wolfram Physics are complex and chaotic.

The multiway graphs that trace every possible evolution of these hypergraphs become extremely complex and extremely chaotic after …

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Where's Mark?

Episode 75

It’s been a while since my last episode of The Last Theory or Open Web Mind.

Where am I?

It might look like I’m lazing in the sun, but actually I’ve been working hard.

For The Last Theory, I’ve been wor…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Black holes in the hypergraph with Stephen Wolfram

Episode 74

Electrons may be tiny black holes propagating through the hypergraph.

After all, electrons and black holes have much in common: they’re carriers of pure motion, they’re all the same – from the outside…

Published on 4 months ago

The causal graph is objective reality

Episode 73

The multiway graph shows every possible evolution of the universe.

So, if we can compute every possible reality, does that mean that there’s no single objective reality?

Well, the causal graph, it turn…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Stephen Wolfram on AI, human-like minds & formal knowledge

Episode 72

In this fascinating exposition, Stephen Wolfram connects two of the most important breakthroughs of our time: AI and the ruliad.

I ask Stephen how he thinks about knowledge hypergraphs, which I’m expl…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Multiway minds with Stephen Wolfram

Episode 71

Can you hold in your mind two different threads of experience?

In this five-minute excerpt from my conversation with Stephen Wolfram, he introduces the strange idea of a multiway mind.

Most of the time…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Do fields exist?

Episode 70

Fields don’t exist.

I mean, a field with grass in it, that kind of field does exist.

But a field in physics?

A gravitational field? An electric field? A magnetic field? A quantum field?

No such thing.

I’m…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Aggregation – how the Wolfram model weaves the future – with Stephen Wolfram

Episode 69

In the previous excerpt from my conversation with Stephen Wolfram, I asked him how I can remain a single, coherent, persistent consciousness in a branching universe.

In this excerpt, we went deeper in…

Published on 8 months ago