Stephen Wolfram: What is Computation? | AI Podcast Clips
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2020
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Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language, and the new Wolfram Physics project. He is the author of several books including A New Kind of Science, which on a personal note was one of the most influential books in my journey in computer science and artificial intelligence.
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I'm reading NKS, almost finished. My understanding is that computation is definite/discrete steps in evolution of systems, and every step follows a discrete/definite logic/rule. I'm starting to see this as pretty powerful and universal way of thinking about everything that exists. Everything in existence is a system in a state of evolution, therefore we must study and understand the discrete/definite steps and logic of these systems.
To echo Aristotle's criticism of Plato: you're doubling things. You're hiding all your messiness and uncertainty with the words "discreet" and "definite," which you don't define - and can't!
I have made a definition of computation myself; here it goes: computation is an evolution of a system constrained by rules. that system must exist on a unified substrate that is entropically stable. It is reflected in a fact of the presence of confluence.
Reading this caused my brain to implode
@@RrRr-or5tw add me in that list🤣🤣
Awesome discussion.
Very insightful!
Please consider the possibility of interviewing Charles Elachi
Hi, Lex, why does this video has a subtitle?
This theory seems to add up! 😉
To do
So according to PCE, does we just translates input or output from other systems into our brains or computers when we want to make prediction or model behaviors of other "systems"? I mean If we want to predicate the weather, we put inputs in a model run by a system called computer; These input corresponds to the translation of the state(s) of the weather in the language of mathematics in our brain, in the language of the computer in the computer; then using PCE we can say that two system compute in parallel :
· our computer which run the model, in order to compute different weather states where redundant information is relevant to us (i.e weather state_1° in which the time : 10 A.M and the location : x is relevant, weather state_1.1 =(10.1 A.M, at the same location x, …) ; weather state_2 = 10.1 A.M at another location y…)
· The universe run "is own computation", it gives us the weather state we experienced every day
Could we say that we would translate perfectly the rules of one system to another when we would get the same corresponding states ?
From a purely theoretical perspective, I would say that it is correct. Only if you exhaustively explore all possible states, corroborating that they all match correspondingly. However, in practice that is not possible. Hence, it is more convenient to prove that the translation is correct by showing the rules, initial conditions, and assumptions are the same in both systems.
Why do people buy those tall cups of coffee? You don't need that much to get the most out of it. And really after a certain point it's actually counter productive and more likely to put you to sleep.
Lex is simply brilliant... Stephen well, I think he misses the forest for the trees.
I would love to watch all of your videos but i feel really bad and sad beacuse i live on a planet where my medication is illegal, i live on a planet where i cannot decide about my life, do you think i have any will to learn these great topics and change the world while i can be put to jail for deciding about my life? Theres only one Sun shining for all of us on this planet. We are giving away our rights for a fake feeling of safety. I feel like this century is going to be reffered as dark ages of our times if nothing will change. Please unite people of good will. Let the conciousnes flow in the good direction
@@NikoAmeristar Why does this happen and how can we change this? Should we even try?
@@NikoAmeristar I often question things and took your first comment in a negative way. That is good point about the monetary system. How can i help?