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Is everything determined? with Stephen Wolfram
Manage episode 466520579 series 3295825
Is everything that’s ever going to happen in the universe already determined?
Or does something else – maybe randomness, maybe free will – play a role?
Stephen Wolfram’s answer to this question is straightforward: the ruliad is fully determined.
But there’s a twist. The ruliad is determined, but how we observe the evolution of the universe depends on where we are in the ruliad.
In a fascinating introduction to the role of the observer in the Wolfram model, Stephen touches on some of the deepest philosophical questions in physics, finishing on one of the deepest: is there an objective reality?
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Stephen Wolfram
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The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind
I release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.
Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.
70 episodes
Manage episode 466520579 series 3295825
Is everything that’s ever going to happen in the universe already determined?
Or does something else – maybe randomness, maybe free will – play a role?
Stephen Wolfram’s answer to this question is straightforward: the ruliad is fully determined.
But there’s a twist. The ruliad is determined, but how we observe the evolution of the universe depends on where we are in the ruliad.
In a fascinating introduction to the role of the observer in the Wolfram model, Stephen touches on some of the deepest philosophical questions in physics, finishing on one of the deepest: is there an objective reality?
—
Stephen Wolfram
—
The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind
I release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.
Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.
70 episodes
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