Wolfram's "nova ciência"

Is the universe a computer?
Dr Wolfram believes that all the vastly different complex processes seen in nature, from the markings on a seashell to weather systems to intelligence itself, are the products of such simple computations. The idea that mathematics underpins the laws of nature, which now seems obvious, was once radical. Dr Wolfram proposes an even deeper law, that the universe is underpinned by a set of simple computational rules capable of producing vast complexity, and that nature is just “sampling what’s out there in the computational universe”. He claims that applying NKS widely could lead to advances not only in mathematics and computing but also physics, biology and even the social sciences.
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