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Podcast: The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Episode: Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [December 11, 2020]
Description: Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series.
Questions include: ​Who are your favourite Science fiction authors? What are your favourite stories/movies? - Why do people have emotions and feelings? How do emotions and feelings work? Happiness, anger, etc. - In the space of all possible mental states, what is the ratio of positive vs negative states? Is this a relative quantity? Does it obey certain transformations? - ​If people didn't have emotions then nothing would ever get done. - Do you think the set of e...