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Wolfram: Space is discrete and composed of fundamental atoms
“Space is discrete. There are atoms of space, so to speak, not like physical atoms like hydrogen, helium, and things.”
Stephen Wolfram Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 28:33 All-In Summit: Stephen Wolfram on computation, AI, and the nature of the universe
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Wolfram: Space-time and gravity arise from computationally bounded observers
“And it turns out that exact same phenomenon is the origin of space-time and gravity, that these, all these atoms of space operating in this network, it's all this computationally irreducible process, but observers like us, observers who are computationally bou…”
Stephen Wolfram Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 35:02 All-In Summit: Stephen Wolfram on computation, AI, and the nature of the universe
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Wolfram: Humans have words for only 1 in 10^600 possible concepts
“When you ask the question in the space of sort of all possible concepts, how many do we have words for? The answer is it's one in 10 to the 600.”
Stephen Wolfram Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 25:45 All-In Summit: Stephen Wolfram on computation, AI, and the nature of the universe
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Wolfram: Unbounded non-human observers perceive entirely different physical laws
“And so, you know, imagine sort of the alien that isn't like us, that isn't computationally bounded, doesn't believe it's persistent in time. It will observe different laws of the universe.”
Stephen Wolfram Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 37:19 All-In Summit: Stephen Wolfram on computation, AI, and the nature of the universe
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Wolfram: Electrons are not infinitesimally small
“It has been assumed that electrons are actually infinitesimally small, but that doesn't seem to be true.”
Stephen Wolfram Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 30:23 All-In Summit: Stephen Wolfram on computation, AI, and the nature of the universe
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