Stephen Wolfram Readings: Why Does Biological Evolution Work?

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Stephen reads a recent blog from https://writings.stephenwolfram.com and then answers questions live from his viewers. Read the blog along with Stephen: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-does-biological-evolution-work-a-minimal-model-for-biological-evolution-and-other-adaptive-processes/ Originally livestreamed at: https://twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram 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 Follow us on our official social media channels. X: https://twitter.com/WolframResearch/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolframresearch/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wolframresearch/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research/ Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephen_wolfram/ Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: https://community.wolfram.com/ Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: https://blog.wolfram.com/ Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/