Stephen Wolfram — physicist and creator of Wolfram Alpha — has spent decades trying to understand why the universe produces so much complexity from such simple beginnings. His answer? The same principle that drives biological evolution, shapes living tissue, and determines how organisms grow turns out to be a fundamental property of computation itself. Nature isn’t random and it isn’t engineered. It’s something stranger and more elegant than either. This video The universe isn’t random – it’s something stranger is featured on Big Think.