Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. For three hundred years the mathematical paradigm was the state of the art in theoretical science—and immense progress was made using it.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. For three hundred years the mathematical paradigm was the state of the art in theoretical science—and immense progress was made using it.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

And it’s all based on ideas from our Physics Project —and on a fundamental correspondence between what’s happening at the lowest level in all physical processes and in expression evaluation. In our Physics Project we have called the states obtained by applying maximal collections of events at a time “ generational states ”.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Multiway systems have a central role in our Physics Project , particularly in connection with quantum mechanics. At first, multiway systems can seem rather abstract and difficult to grasp—and perhaps that’s inevitable given our human tendency to think sequentially. But what shapes can the final terminal clusters form?

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. But it also led him to the idea that the universe must be a giant cellular automaton—whose program he could invent. A long and colorful story. I’d politely ask for details.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. How is it made?

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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I designed a series of activities beginning with the Knowing and Learning in Science and Mathematics course. The lessons learned are carried through the subsequent Classroom Interactions and Multiple Teaching Practices in Science and Mathematics (PBL) courses (each with field experiences), and full time Student Teaching with seminar.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 25, 2021

Based on a talk at Numerous Numerosity: An interdisciplinary meeting on the notions of cardinality, ordinality and arithmetic across the sciences. Surely, one might think, to have all that technology they must have the idea of numbers. Surely they too must have the idea of numbers. What Underlies the Idea of Numbers?

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 13, 2022

Figuring out more and more science. And painstakingly laying out page after page of what on May 14, 2002, would be published as A New Kind of Science. I’ve written before (even in the book itself ) about the intellectual journey involved in the creation of A New Kind of Science. Developing new kinds of computational diagrams.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

All in all, it’s a fascinating story, that both explains what’s been believed about thermodynamics, and provides some powerful examples of the complicated dynamics of the development and acceptance of ideas. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 8, 2022

Humanizing Multicomputational Processes. Multicomputation is one of the core ideas of the Wolfram Physics Project —and in particular is at the heart of our emerging understanding of quantum mechanics. But how can one get an intuition for what is initially the rather abstract idea of multicomputation ?

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work? seems best.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a human could do. And suddenly we realized that an AI could write a passable human-like essay. And how will we humans fit in? My goal here is to explore some of the science, technology—and philosophy—of what we can expect from AIs.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. But it is only now—with ideas that have emerged from our Physics Project —that I think I can pull all the pieces together and finally be able to construct a proper framework to explain why—and to what extent—the Second Law is true.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

From projects that get completed within months of their conception, to projects that rely on years (and sometimes even decades) of systematic development. And all too often when I show people what’s possible, I’ll get the response “I had no idea the Wolfram Language could do that !” Our R&D portfolio is broad.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

In preparation for a conference entitled “ Distributed Consensus with Cellular Automata & Related Systems ” that we’re organizing with NKN (= “New Kind of Network”) I decided to explore the problem of distributed consensus using methods from A New Kind of Science (yes, NKN “rhymes” with NKS) as well as from the Wolfram Physics Project.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. In the language of our Physics Project, it’s the ultimate limit of all rulial multiway systems. In many ways, the ruliad is a strange and profoundly abstract thing.

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