A conversation with scientist and author Steve Wolfram

with Steve Wolfram
in Science & Health, Books
on Friday, August 23, 2002 * * * * *

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A conversation with scientist and author Stephen Wolfram about his book "A New Kind of Science", which offers an accessible explanation of computational systems.

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empirical study
Darwin
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Stephen Wolfram
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discovery

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    1. winter  03/11/2012 01:19 AM Report

      Someone once said "If we admit that human life can be explained by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed".

      Mr Wolfram's attemtps at enquiry into organizing principles at their most basic levels has been done by Darwin. Adaptation and Natural Selection cut across all orders of magnitude in explaining how Life itself proceeds. Any computer program's results will necessarily have the authors influences projected into it. Mr Wolfram would like to fold reason the way its said traveling across vast distances in space would be made possible by folding space.

      I believe any such mechanism is inacessible to reason since its the figure to our ground or the anti matter to our matter in this experience we undergo. Its a realm poetry at times allows us to approach but never trap.

    2. milhous  09/17/2010 01:20 AM Report

      Raw intellectual power at its finest. It will be great to see NKS manifest itself in the 21st century.