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Stephen Wolfram

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

Stephen Wolfram

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Stephen Wolfram is saying that over the past two decades, as computers have advanced, he began to see that there might be fundamental rules that can explain how nature works. This idea suggests that nature's behavior could be described using simple, general principles discovered through computational methods.

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