Stephen Wolfram defends his computational theory of everything

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
Date: Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 1:08 PM
Subject: Stephen Wolfram defends his computational theory of everything
To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>, John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>


Dave, I thought your list might be interested in my Q&A with Stephen
Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and A New Kind of Science. John Horgan

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Stephen Wolfram Defends His Computational Theory of Everything


Stephen Wolfram seems to see himself as Newton
<https://www.wired.com/2002/06/wolfram/> upgraded with programming chops
and business savvy, but it’s not hubris if you back it up... Wolfram
contends that Wolfram Language—which underpins Mathematica and
Wolfram|Alpha, a knowledge engine he released in 2009—represents a “new
paradigm for computation
<http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/11/something-very-big-is-coming-our-most-important-technology-project-yet/>”
that will enable humans and machines to “interact at a vastly richer and
higher level than ever before.” This vision dovetails with the theme of
Wolfram’s 2002 opus A New Kind of Science, which argued that simple
computer programs, like those that generate cellular automata
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton>, can model the world
more effectively than traditional mathematical methods. ..


Read full Q&A at:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/polymath-stephen-wolfram-defends-his-computational-theory-of-everything/



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