Argumentation Chemistry Elementary Flexibility 
Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 5, 2024
My first big success came in 1981 when I decided to try enumerating all possible rules of a certain kind (elementary cellular automata) and then ran them on a computer to see what they did: I’d assumed that with simple underlying rules, the final behavior would be correspondingly simple. Yes, there can be a lot of flexibility in this model.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. In physics, those “topological phenomena” presumably correspond to things like elementary particles , with all their various elaborate symmetries. Chemistry / Molecular Biology. Does this matter, though?
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Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. In physics, those “topological phenomena” presumably correspond to things like elementary particles , with all their various elaborate symmetries. Chemistry / Molecular Biology. Does this matter, though?
Stephen Wolfram
JANUARY 9, 2024
In addition to whole courses, we have “miniseries” of lectures about specific topics: And we also have courses —and books—about the Wolfram Language itself, like my Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language , which came out in a third edition this year (and has an associated course, online version, etc.): is PositionSmallest.
Stephen Wolfram
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. This argument is quite rough, but it captures the essence of what’s going on. But what if we’re more flexible in what we consider the objective of the demon to be? Why does the Second Law work?
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