Wolfram's a lot smarter than I am, but I believe he also believes the function is discrete and not continuous. In fact, he makes the point in NKS that we may have went off the rails with Newton and the calculus. It may turn out that the universe is discrete and that our understanding of it as continuous is just an artifact of not having the computational power to see how discrete functions can effectively look continuous at a much larger scale (sort of a reverse proof of the integral)
It blows my mind. But if you're a genius, might as well have a hobby, right? I'm just glad he took this up instead of bowling.
Just thought I would add that clarification in there, because I know the word "function" has a lot of meanings to people.
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Wolfram's a lot smarter than I am, but I believe he also believes the function is discrete and not continuous. In fact, he makes the point in NKS that we may have went off the rails with Newton and the calculus. It may turn out that the universe is discrete and that our understanding of it as continuous is just an artifact of not having the computational power to see how discrete functions can effectively look continuous at a much larger scale (sort of a reverse proof of the integral)
It blows my mind. But if you're a genius, might as well have a hobby, right? I'm just glad he took this up instead of bowling.
Just thought I would add that clarification in there, because I know the word "function" has a lot of meanings to people.