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What Stephen Wolfram thinks about physics

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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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3 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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  1. Our readingBiology has computational irreducibility at its core, so biological phenomena depend inevitably on history.

    Their wordsRuliobiology-and, I believe, biology-have computational irreducibility at their core. So, for example, whereas in physics one can discuss a phenomenon just as something happening "here and now", in ruliobiology-and biology-there is an inevitable dependence on history

    ↗“Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful”: Ruliobiology and the Theoretical Foundations of Biological Formwritings.stephenwolfram.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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  3. Our readingSpace is fundamentally a discrete structure rather than a continuum.

    Their wordsspace is not just a simple continuum. Instead, it's a complicated discrete structure that in fact represents every aspect of our universe-both what we normally think of as space, and everything in it.

    ↗What Ultimately Is There? Metaphysics and the Ruliadwritings.stephenwolfram.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingThe Second Law of thermodynamics is not an intrinsic law of nature but emerges from the computational boundedness of observers.

    Their wordswhat we see is that the Second Law is something that emerges because of us, and our characteristics as observers, and in particular our computational boundedness.

    ↗What Ultimately Is There? Metaphysics and the Ruliadwritings.stephenwolfram.com 2nd of 3 in this piece