
E78 - Think like an alien with Stephen Wolfram
Published: January 2, 2026
Duration: 9:13
Different observers, from different regions of the ruliad, experience the universe in different ways.
To what extent can these different observers communicate their different experiences?
Can dogs, with their olefactory ways of mapping their worlds through scent, truly understand humans, with our one-dimensional ways of mapping our world through language?
Can humans, with our one-dimensional streams of language, truly understand AI image generators, with their parallel diffusion models?
If we ever met aliens, would we be able to communicate with them?
How might it be to think like an...