Start at 1:30 and end at 44:00:

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  • mining the computational universe
  • rule 30
  • seething universe of computational creativity
  • universal computation
  • rule 110 is universal
    • turing
  • computational irreducibility
    • 18:30 – free will vs determinism
  • computational equivalence
    • 19:30 – the weather has a mind of its own – animism – pattern of neurons firing in our brains
  • 28:00 – delivering alien artifacts
  • 29:00 – new interface – deliver knowledge to us preemptively based on personal data – personal analytics
  • 31:37 – universal mechanical object – turn robotics into a software problem – bizarre collection of tiny little identical objects as cellular automan