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The search for solid ground with Stephen Wolfram

Episode 86

Stephen Wolfram talks about how he knows what he knows, the interplay between theory and experiment, and the importance of building towers of knowled…

9 hours ago

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Stop using quantum mechanics to science-wash your delusions

Episode 85

I am tired of hearing quantum mechanics invoked in support of nonsense.

You know the kind of thing.

Quantum mechanics therefore crystal healing.

Quantum…

6 days, 7 hours ago

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There are no rules in science

Episode 84

I’m forever hearing that there are rules in science.

If a theory breaks the rules, I’m told, it must be rejected.

Trouble is, if, in the past, we’d rej…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Stephen Wolfram's 10 ways to have big ideas

Episode 83

Stephen Wolfram is an extraordinary thinker.

He doesn’t seem to think like other scientists. He doesn’t seem to think like other technologists. And he…

4 months, 1 week ago

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Why are we in the universe we're in?

Episode 82

If physics is computational, then what gets computed when?

This is a surprisingly deep question.

The seemingly even computation of the universe gives u…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Wolfram on philosophy

Episode 81

Stephen Wolfram has many philosophical ideas, but I’ve not heard him talk about pure philosophy.

When I asked him about the relationship between physi…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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How different observers think differently with Stephen Wolfram

Episode 80

Do different observers think differently? Or does the principle of computational equivalence mean that all observers think the same way?

Stephen Wolfr…

7 months ago

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What is time in Wolfram Physics?

Episode 79

Physics, the way we’ve thought about it for the last few hundred years, requires us to make assumptions about time.

In our old way of thinking, just a…

8 months ago

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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 com…

9 months, 1 week ago

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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.

P…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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