Simple rules. Infinite complexity. Physicist Stephen Wolfram has spent forty years working out the connection. Here’s the short version.

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Physicist Stephen Wolfram spent decades running computer experiments on simple rules — not looking for anything grand, just seeing what happened. What he found turned into a model of how the universe works, an explanation for why evolution never gets stuck, and a mathematical argument for why your life can’t be shortcut or predicted by anyone.

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