Wolfram's Theory of Everything Explained | Stephen Wolfram and Lex Fridman

7:40 Trying to visualize the scale of Wolfram’s idea of our base reality being “atoms of space” at 10^-100 meters is utterly mind melting as this is 90 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE smaller than the length of a hydrogen atom which clock in at 10^-10 meters.

For perspective the diameter of the entire observable universe (93 Billion Light Years) is 10^26 meters which is only 36 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE larger than a hydrogen atom.

If this doesn’t blow your mind, check your pulse.

Nothing, and I repeat, nothing in this internet world surprises me anymore. But this... this I just heard, is just amazing. Thank you, Lex. Thank you Mr. Wolfram.

I just want to know "who am i and why am i aware".... the only answer I can think of that awareness is always there, and that just the things in it changes. And he seems to be explaining how the things in it changes.

I am reminded of Salieri’s astonishment upon witnessing The Magic Flute in the movie Amadeus. “I saw [...many amazing things…]” In Wolfram’s talk, I saw the Enlightenment, Leibnitz, Feynman, graph algorithms, Zeno’s paradox explained, time/space/and my own location, and more.

I felt this when I was on mushrooms. I felt my vision was shaking really really fast creating sort of a blur and that blur can shake super fast and give a clear picture or it can slow down to a blur. I felt all atoms of my body had like a special checkmark in their being, the checkmark was my own special id that identified my body. whenever i touched something the other atoms would shove my atoms away and mine would shove them away because neither has matching id codes. I wasn't truly myself I was trillions of beings pretending to be me because alone they cannot accomplish anything.

I believe that they way that Wolfram is approaching these physics problems is the right way to go about it. Even if his theories are incomplete right now I believe eventually his approach will yield results.

I think he knows what he is talking about . And that’s all right

He makes a lot of sense. I have a gut feeling that his thinking is in the right direction.

This is very interesting. I wonder what kind of implications there are for such a reality in terms of observers like us. Maybe there is an experimental way to test this theory, some kind of computational limit or something that could give us a peek behind the curtain.

This professor idea of space creating itself every moment looks like my Acid trip when I spent an our seeing the dots connecting everything in my space of my living room. It looked as if everything is physically connected with everything and there were no real borders between anything. When I moved the cup on my table it felt like a rendering in the new place. I moved it back and again it rendered like a video image not a real cup. It is as a blissful trip.

This is quality and I’m so happy I stumbled upon this video. Really helps reaffirm a lot of my thoughts I’ve been having for my future doctorate paper in physics. Thanks Lex

I have the feeling that this guy is on the right track. I remember trying to read A New Kind of Science many years ago and not really understanding but also unable to shake the feeling that there was something deeply insightful there Amazing to watch him now apparently recreate relativity with this line of logic!! Incredible.

I’ve been waiting many years to hear a theory like this. Thank you for changing my life.

I've been thinking in terms of graphs and metagraphs myself. Every "thing" is a graph, and just connections, with no inherent existence. But it is also a node in a higher level metagraph. But there is no direct connection from the metagraphs to the included nodes, which are actually sub-graphs - since it would then collapse into a one-level graph. There is only a bias, and these biases are dynamic, with feedback from the lower level graph providing a counter bias that determines what biasing edges connect or disconnect. Biases are very common in nature - hormonal bias, electrical bias, thermal bias, etc. Metagraphs, BTW, can also be a node in an even higher level graph, although things get more general as you go up the ladder. The feedback explains a lot of things that are not now recognized by science, since we are the feedback on the human level.

I know why this discussion bothers me so much, Wolfram's math is more real than space and the stuff in space. Where does the computational equivalence live? What makes it real? There must be a computer somewhere. It can't be the hypergraph (atoms of space) because they don't really exist from one moment to the next (avoiding the aether wind question). So WHERE IS REALITY?

The last sentence of the video about consciousness fits perfectly with the Thousands Brain Theory.

Honestly his talk makes me think of being inside of a video game or matrix or better yet a 3D viewport and trying to figure out how to get out. Imagine you’re literally inside of Blender’s viewport and you can’t figure out how things work because the things that affect you like the timeline and the code that shades you and lights you is updating invisibly under the hood and even your thoughts are updated on each frame so how can you figure out what frame you’re on or what the FPS is if your existence is defined by the FPS? It seems not impossible but definitely very difficult.

This is a lot of fun. In medias res. “Computationally bound creatures” Excellent clip edit

I'll never understand why I waste my time listening to this type of stuff that makes absolutely so sense to me. Just in case someone else feels the same way, you are not alone

Lex, you should interview Erik Verlindi his work on gravity as an emergent property is fascinating and relatable🤷🏽‍♂️maybe.