Stephen Wolfram

And so there was sort of a question of how some features of that pattern.

And so it was very much a physical, you know, on the floor with meter rules trying to measure different things.

Mm-hmm.

So Feynman kind of takes me aside.

We've been doing that for a little while and takes me aside.

And he says, I just want to know this one thing.

He says, I want to know, how did you know that this Rule 30 thing would produce all this really complicated behavior that is so complicated that we're going around with this big printout and so on?

And I said, well, I didn't know.

I just enumerated all the possible rules and then observed that that's what happened.

He said, oh, I feel a lot better.

You know, I thought you had some intuition that he didn't have that would let one.

I said, no, no, no, no intuition, just experimental science.

Yes, that's right.

Yes, yes.

No, he was, I mean, I think he was sort of on the edge of understanding that point about computation.

And I think he found that, I think he always found computation interesting.

And I think that was sort of what he was a little bit poking at.

I mean, that intuition, you know, the difficulty of discovering things like even you say, oh, you know, you just enumerate all the cases and just find one that does something interesting, right?

Sounds very easy.

Turns out, like, I missed it when I first saw it because I had kind of an intuition that said it shouldn't be there.