
E80 - How different observers think differently with Stephen Wolfram
Published: March 5, 2026
Duration: 9:53
Do different observers think differently? Or does the principle of computational equivalence mean that all observers think the same way?
Stephen Wolfram takes this question and runs with it.
If we had brains the size of planets, he suggests, the finite speed of light would force us to think of space and time differently, and abandon the fiction of an instantaneous state of space.
If we had brains the size of molecules, he says, we’d no longer think of the motion of molecules as random, and we’d find the heat death of t...