Stephen Wolfram: Computation and Cellular Automata

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I'm watching Stephen's Royal Institute special on computational physics based on approaches similar to Conways Game of Life. One of the cases that I think he's making rather well - there's probably a lot going on in the universe that's valuable for us to know about but which would not house itself well in mathematical equations, for example something like predicting when a certain pattern would die out in rule 110 or other things like that, ie. situations where you don't have these pristine x, y, etc. variables available to be leveraged.

To me this a good reminder as well that one of the problems we have right now is massive capacities for computation and not enough imagination for ways to fully leverage that computational power for solving all of the problems that we could with it. In a way it's a creativity drought.