Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). Central to his picture was the idea that at the bottom of everything was a cellular automaton, with its grid of cells somehow laid out in space.
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