> Even if one thinks Wolfram's foundations of physics project will never bare useful fruit, it's undeniable that he has made progress in other fields that are of interest to many people.
This is true, I'm sure, in Physics. But I don't think it's true in logic. Did anyone working in logic at the time care about this question? Does it have any practical significance? If experts at the time didn't care and it has no useful purpose, then why should this impress me? Doing novel work is really easy -- just work on stuff other people don't care about.
This is true, I'm sure, in Physics. But I don't think it's true in logic. Did anyone working in logic at the time care about this question? Does it have any practical significance? If experts at the time didn't care and it has no useful purpose, then why should this impress me? Doing novel work is really easy -- just work on stuff other people don't care about.