Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

32 Some Personal History: The Evolution of These Ideas. One of the many surprising (and to me, unexpected) implications of our Physics Project is its suggestion of a very deep correspondence between the foundations of physics and mathematics. But the idea is that they can both be seen as views of the same underlying structure.

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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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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics The Basic Arc of the Story As I’ll explain elsewhere , I think I now finally understand the Second Law of thermodynamics. And from the vantage point of the understanding we now have, we can go back and realize that there were precursors of it even from long ago.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

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

MARCH 15, 2023

My goal here is to explore some of the science, technology—and philosophy—of what we can expect from AIs. I should say at the outset that this is a subject fraught with both intellectual and practical difficulty. And in their raw form someone else would probably have a hard time understanding them. What will AIs be able to do?

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Computer Biology Mathematics Economics 105

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.

Science 64

Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 64

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.

Physics 65

Physics Science Sciences Mathematics 65

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 8, 2022

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 ? But the idea of multicomputation provides a link.

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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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