What Stephen Wolfram thinks about evolutionary biology
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Stephen Wolfram has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsthere is a certain theoretically-derivable inevitability to the generation of "endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful". One of the ingredients that's needed is indeed Darwin's idea of natural selection
↗“Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful”: Ruliobiology and the Theoretical Foundations of Biological Formwritings.stephenwolfram.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Our readingAdaptive evolution tends to achieve even a simple, fixed objective through complicated behavior.
Their wordsIn other words, adaptive evolution will tend to make even a simple, fixed objective be achieved in a complicated way.
↗Games between Programs: The Ruliology of Competitionwritings.stephenwolfram.com 1st of 2 in this piece