Wolfram's New Science

To quote Stephen Wolfram: "Well, so what I found, by doing in effect empirical computational science, was that in the computational universe there’s incredible richness in a sense very near at hand. I think this is a pretty fundamental thing. And actually I think it explains a pretty fundamental observation about our world.

You see, even though when we build things it always seems to take a lot of effort to build something that is complicated, nature doesn’t seem to work that way. Instead, it seems as if nature has some kind of secret that effortlessly produces all sorts of complexity. And I think we now know what that secret is. It’s that nature is sampling all sorts of programs in the computational universe. But even though the programs are simple, they just don’t always happen to be ones whose behavior is simple. They don’t happen to be the programs that correspond to things we’ve built with our mathematics and our traditional mathematical science."


http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/04/29/today-we-broke-the-bernoulli-record-from-the-analytical-engine-to-mathematica/