Stephen Wolfram

Then I realized the details of the things we do, they are the story.

Everything else is kind of a blank canvas.

Yeah, I mean, I think what's fun about that is, you know, the monoliths are these, you know, one to four to nine perfect cuboid things.

And in the, you know, Earth of a Million Years Ago, whatever they were portraying with a bunch of apes and so on, a thing that has that level of perfection seems out of place.

It seems very kind of constructed, very engineered.

So that's an interesting question.

What's the techno signature, so to speak?

What is it that you see it somewhere and you say, my gosh, that had to be engineered.

Now, the fact is we see crystals, which are also very perfect.

And the perfect ones are very perfect.

They're nice polyhedral or whatever.

And so in that sense, if you say, well, it's a sign of sort of it's a techno signature that it's a perfect, you know, perfect polygonal shape, polyhedral shape.

That's not true.

And so then it's an interesting question.

What?

What is the, you know, what is the right signature?

I mean, like, you know, Gauss, famous mathematician, you know, he had this idea, you should cut down the Siberian forest in the shape of sort of a typical image of the proof of the Pythagorean theorem on the grounds that, it was a kind of cool idea, it didn't get done, but...

It's on the grounds that the Martians would see that and realize, gosh, there are mathematicians out there.

In his theory of the world, that was probably the best advertisement for the cultural achievements of our species.

But it's a reasonable question.