Stephen Wolfram, author of A New Kind of Science and creator of the Mathematica software system, captivated the audience at PopTech with his theory in a session titled "The Rules of Reality, Revealed." "Any system whose behavior doesnt look obviously simple to us is as simple as any computational system," said Wolfram, explaining the principle of computational equivalence.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002
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