Stephen Wolfram Readings: Why Does Biological Evolution Work?

Stephen reads a recent blog from writings.stephenwolfram.com and then answers questions live from his viewers.
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00:00 Start stream
6:15 SW starts talking
6:54 The Model
18:18 The Multiway Graph of All Possible Mutation Histories
29:22 The Fitness Landscape
36:06 The Whole Space: Exhaustive Search vs. Adaptive Evolution
50:44 The Issue of Undecidability
55:41 Computation Theoretic Perspectives and Busy Beavers
59:25 Probabilistic Approximations?
1:02:46 Other Adaptive Evolution Strategies
1:06:52 An Aside: Sexual Reproduction
1:11:34 An Even More Minimal Model
1:14:24 What Can Adaptive Evolution Achieve?
1:23:09 What It Means for What's Going On in Biology
1:36:51 Correspondence with Biological Phenomena
1:44:34 Historical Notes
1:57:29 Personal Notes
2:09:02 Q&A
2:27:28 End stream
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