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Wolfram believes that the computational realities of the universe make science hard for fundamental reasons.

But he also argues that by understanding the importance of these realities, we can learn to leverage them in our favor.

For instance, instead of reverse engineering our theories from observation, we can simply enumerate systems and then try to match them to the behaviors we observe.

A major theme of NKS style research is investigating the structure of the possibility space.

Wolfram feels that science is far too ad hoc, in part because the models used are too complicated and / or unnecessarily organized around the limited primitives of traditional mathematics.

Wolfram advocates using models whose variations are enumerable and whose consequences are straightforward to compute and analyze.