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The Wolfram Physics Project: A One-Year Update
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Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project
What Is Formal, and What Is Actualized? Why does the universe exist? Why is there something rather than nothing? These are old and fundamental questions that one might think would be firmly outside...
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The Problem of Distributed Consensus
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Launching Version 12.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?
Based on a talk at Numerous Numerosity: An interdisciplinary meeting on the notions of cardinality, ordinality and arithmetic across the sciences. Everyone Has to Have Numbers… Don’t They? The aliens...
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1920, 2020 and a $20,000 Prize: Announcing the S Combinator Challenge
h2.bookpost{display:block;} img.bookpost{padding-left:5px} Hiding in Plain Sight for a Century? On December 7, 1920, Moses Schönfinkel introduced the S and K combinators—and in doing so provided the...
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A Little Closer to Finding What Became of Moses Schönfinkel, Inventor of...
For most big ideas in recorded intellectual history one can answer the question: “What became of the person who originated it?” But late last year I tried to answer that for Moses Schönfinkel, who...
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The Wolfram Physics Project: A Gallery of the First Year
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The Wolfram Physics Project: A One-Year Update
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Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project
What Is Formal, and What Is Actualized? Why does the universe exist? Why is there something rather than nothing? These are old and fundamental questions that one might think would be firmly outside...
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The Problem of Distributed Consensus
In preparation for a conference entitled “Distributed Consensus with Cellular Automata & Related Systems” that we’re organizing with NKN (= “New Kind of Network”) I decided to explore the problem...
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Launching Version 12.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?
Based on a talk at Numerous Numerosity: An interdisciplinary meeting on the notions of cardinality, ordinality and arithmetic across the sciences. Everyone Has to Have Numbers… Don’t They? The aliens...
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1920, 2020 and a $20,000 Prize: Announcing the S Combinator Challenge
h2.bookpost{display:block;} img.bookpost{padding-left:5px} Hiding in Plain Sight for a Century? On December 7, 1920, Moses Schönfinkel introduced the S and K combinators—and in doing so provided the...
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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General...
/*special h3*/ #blog #content .post_content h3 { padding-top: 1.25rem; } The Path to a New Paradigm One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path...
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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More
h2.bookpost{display:block;} img.bookpost{padding-top:20px} This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of...
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Multicomputation with Numbers: The Case of Simple Multiway Systems
Wolfram Physics Bulletin Informal updates and commentary on progress in the Wolfram Physics Project A Minimal Example of Multicomputation Multicomputation is an important new paradigm, but one that...
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Celebrating a Third of a Century of Mathematica, and Looking Forward
From the 30th anniversary of Mathematica, see also: “We’ve Come a Long Way in 30 Years (But You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet!)”. Mathematica 1.0 was launched on June 23, 1988. So (depending a little on...
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The Concept of the Ruliad
table.InCell { margin-left: -0.27rem; } The Entangled Limit of Everything I call it the ruliad. Think of it as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible: the result of...
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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica
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