At the age of 12, Stephen Wolfram was reading college physics textbooks and toying around with a computer roughly "the size of a large desk. With 8K of 18-bit words of core memory. And programmed with paper tape."
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- 28 Apr. 2010 12:51pm #1
Can we compute an answer to every question?
- 28 Apr. 2010 03:52pm #2
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No, we can't we already tried. It was attempted when a philosopher summarized our language into true or false statements that could be represented as either 1 or 0. Binary is possible only because of this philosophical idea. After the idea of all things being based on truth statements, a project was started and abandoned to try to find the base truths of reality and thus answer every question.