Looking at simple cellular automata reveals computational phenomena that appear in empirical simulations but that traditional mathematical approaches ignore, treating them as noise rather than genuine patterns.

factualpending

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Stephen Wolfram

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Those phenomena absolutely existed in simulations people had done... but they ignored them... saying oh, there's some noise.

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Can space and time emerge from simple rules? Stephen Wolfram thinks so. | World Science FestivalWorld Science Festival
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:48:03 PM

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