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It has been ten years since Stephen Wolfram published his magnum opus A New Kind of Science [13]. It is worth re-examining the book and its impact in the field.
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Bailey, D.H. (2013). A New Kind of Science: Ten Years Later. In: Zenil, H. (eds) Irreducibility and Computational Equivalence. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35482-3_6
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