What Stephen Wolfram thinks about consciousness

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Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Stephen Wolfram has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 4 Feb 2026

   Our readingA sense of coherent consciousness arises from experience being compressed into a single thread rather than from the brain's full underlying activity.

   Their wordsit's the fact that this is a single thread that seems to give us our sense of coherent existence, and in effect, of consciousness.

   ↗What Ultimately Is There? Metaphysics and the Ruliadwritings.stephenwolfram.com 3rd of 3 in this piece