It’s a huge refrain that shows up again every 20 years or so. Wolfram wrote a huge book with this premise, but I don’t think it’s gone anywhere even though it’s surely 25 years old by now.

GEB was similar in a cycle prior. It's cool to dream but the limits of accepted knowledge requires the hard work of assembling data, evidence, and reasoning.

It's arguably ~2500 years old, dating back to the Pythagoreans, who believed that "all is number" and had a very large and complex system of musical rituals.

The modern manifestation is mostly the intellectual product of Konrad Zuse, who wrote "digital physics" in 1969.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics

Wolfram, Tegmark, Bostrom, etc. are mostly downstream of Zuse.

> Konrad Zuse

That...? Ah, yes, that Konrad Zuse.

Wolfram came to our evolutionary biology department to preach that book about 20 years ago. We all got our heads into cellular automata for a while, but in the end they just don't have the claimed profound explanatory power in real biological systems.

You can read it for free at https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/ if you’re interested.

honestly this would be it, wouldn't it? https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/07fRJGiC51VEHPqYRfNaFjnEA

Did you tried to share a hollywood action movie with us to tell us what exactly?

Did you listen? The audio is different yet it still works.

Well it was nice attempting to talk to lukan, but we've hit the thead depth limit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzujjRLraIE&t=188s

No, I did not download a big movie and likely won't to get a point on HN.

All you want is points on HN when you comment? Anyway, try to only focus on the top middle screen in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_dLx_J2oVs

Your point of argument/information. Not karma points.

Or someone proves that there is no pattern and they will be kicking themselves for wasting their time searching.

The experience gained along the journey is more valuable than the result.