Stephen Wolfram: Computing Life, the Universe and Everything

This is another cool TED video.

Stephen Wolfram, the founder and creator of the Wolfram Alpha search engine, talks about computing the human condition, life, the universe and everything:

As attested by the video below I was under the impression that all this has already been computed:

But seriously, can we really “compute” (and answer) everything?

Or is there more to it all than computation?

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