Stephen Wolfram

MAY 25, 2021

Let’s say that we’re trying to achieve the objective of having an efficient transportation system for carrying people around. No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. Ultimately an economic system is based on a large network of transactions. One person wants to get a cookie.

Mathematics 53

Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 53

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

Already the steam-engine works our mines, impels our ships, excavates our ports and our rivers, forges iron, fashions wood, grinds grain, spins and weaves our cloths, transports the heaviest burdens, etc. He introduced the Boltzmann Transport Equation which allows one to compute at least certain non-equilibrium properties of gases.

Energy 88

Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. Then (by the assumed properties of equality) it follows that. But it’s a fundamental claim that we’re making—that can be thought of as a matter of natural science—that in our universe only computation can occur, not hypercomputation.

Physics 122

Physics Mathematics Computer Construction 122

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. Processes in nature—like, for example, the weather—can be thought of as corresponding to computations.

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Computer Biology Mathematics Economics 105