{"id":225782,"date":"2025-11-24T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/in-defence-of-stephen-wolfram"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:16:21","slug":"in-defence-of-stephen-wolfram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/in-defence-of-stephen-wolfram","title":{"rendered":"In defence of Stephen Wolfram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QswZIUzneSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You like Stephen Wolfram, right?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if he\u2019s to be believed, he has reinvented physics, not to mention philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>How could you not like such a thinker?<\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026 it turns out that there are plenty of people who don\u2019t like Stephen Wolfram\u2026 or his physics\u2026 or his philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Here are four criticisms of Stephen Wolfram I regularly hear\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and here\u2019s why these criticisms, though they hint at uncomfortable truths, nonetheless miss the mark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/in-defence-of-stephen-wolfram\">Continue reading \u201cIn defence of Stephen Wolfram\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You like Stephen Wolfram, right? I mean, if he\u2019s to be believed, he has reinvented physics, not to mention philosophy. How could you not like such a thinker? Well\u2026 it turns out that there are plenty of people who don\u2019t like Stephen Wolfram\u2026 or his physics\u2026 or his philosophy. Here are four criticisms of Stephen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}