Stephen Wolfram investigates the discovery of structures since the Game of Life was invented--searching possibilities versus invention by explicit effort. A thorough look at oscillators, modularity, glider guns.

Stephen Wolfram Blog

22.05.2025

What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Stephen Wolfram explores how the number of neural connections affects capabilities like language and abstraction. How far we could go accounting for neural nets and LLMS, the fundamental nature of computation, neuroscience and the operation of brains.

Stephen Wolfram Blog

08.08.2025

New Features Everywhere: Launching Version 14.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Version 14.3 features new and updated functionality, particularly in core areas of the system. Examples for dark mode, agentic AI, maps & graphics, non-commutative algebra, surface plotting, curvature computation, geodesics, molecules, proteins, control systems, Tabular and many other functions.

Stephen Wolfram Blog

25.08.2025

“I Have a Theory Too”: The Challenge and Opportunity of Avocational Science—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Stephen Wolfram encourages amateur scientists to channel their passion, truly learn the subject that interests them and then systematically explore the computational universe using ruliology.

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What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton?—Stephen Wolfram Writings

What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours—Stephen Wolfram Writings

New Features Everywhere: Launching Version 14.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica—Stephen Wolfram Writings

“I Have a Theory Too”: The Challenge and Opportunity of Avocational Science—Stephen Wolfram Writings

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