Stephen Wolfram
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4,069 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2020
last heard 29 May
Stephen Wolfram’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Until we haven't gone, some things that animals and so on do, we sort of successfully understand, others we do not.
And the question of what kind of, what is the, you know, what representation, you know, how do we convert things that animals think about to things that we can think about?
That's not a trivial thing.
And, you know, I've long been curious.
I had a very bizarre project at one point of trying to make an iPad game that a cat could win against its owner.
It feels like there's a deep philosophical goal there, though.
Yes.
Yes.
I mean, you know, I was curious if, you know, if pets can work in Minecraft or something and can construct things, what will they construct?
And will what they construct be something where we look at it and we say, oh yeah, I recognize that.
Or will it be something that looks to us like something that's out there in the computational universe that one of my, you know, cellular automata might've produced where we say, oh yeah, I can kind of see it operates according to some rules.
I don't know why you would use those rules.
I don't know why you would care.
I think the problem is that cats don't tend to be that interested in what's happening on the iPad.
Yeah, right, right, right.
No, I think it is likely that, I mean, you know, there are plenty of animals that would successfully eat us if we were, you know, if we were exposed to them.
And so there's, you know...
it's gonna pounce faster than we can get out of the way and so on.
So there are plenty of, and probably it's going to, we think we've hidden ourselves, but we haven't successfully hidden ourselves.
Well, I think there are things, certainly in terms of the speed of processing certain kinds of things, for sure.
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