Stephen Wolfram

And I think the kinds of things that I'm thinking about, which are sort of really informed by thinking about computation and the computational universe, it's a different foundation.

It's a different set of foundations.

and might be wrong, but it is at least, you know, we have a shot.

And I think it's, you know, to me, it's, you know, my personal calculation for myself is, you know, if it turns out that the finding the fundamental theory of physics, it's kind of low-hanging fruit, so to speak, it'd be a shame if we just didn't think to do it.

You know, if people just said,

oh, you'll never figure that stuff out.

And it takes another 200 years before anybody gets around to doing it.

I don't know how low hanging this fruit actually is.

It may be that it's kind of the wrong century to do this project.

I mean, I think the cautionary tale for me, I think about things that I've tried to do in technology,

where people thought about doing them a lot earlier.

My favorite example is probably Leibniz, who thought about making essentially encapsulating the world's knowledge in a computational form in the late 1600s and did a lot of things towards that.

And basically, you know, we finally managed to do this, but he was 300 years too early.

And that's kind of the, in terms of life planning, it's kind of like avoid things that can't be done in your century.

So

so to speak.

Oh, we'll know it completely.

We'll know how that all fits together.

Yes, without a question.

And, I mean, it's already, even the things I've already done, they're very, you know, it's very elegant, actually, how things seem to be fitting together.