Stephen Wolfram

But you have this picture of from startup to shutdown, what is the life of a computer, so to speak?

And what does it feel like to be that computer?

And what inner thoughts does it have?

And how do you describe it?

And it's kind of interesting as you start writing about this to realize it's awfully like what you'd say about yourself.

That is, it's awfully like even an ordinary computer.

Forget all the AI stuff and so on.

It has a memory of the past.

It has certain sensory experiences.

It can communicate with other computers, but it has to package up how it's communicating in some kind of language-like form so it can map what's in its memory to what's in the memory of some other computer.

It's a surprisingly similar thing.

You know, I had an experience just a week or two ago.

I'm a collector of all possible data about myself and other things.

And so I collect all sorts of weird medical data and so on.

And one thing I hadn't collected was I'd never had a whole body MRI scan.

So I won't have got one of these.

Okay, so I get all the data back, right?

I'm looking at this thing.

I never looked at the kind of insides of my brain, so to speak, in physical form.

And it's really, I mean, it's kind of psychologically shocking in a sense.