> The ChatGPT explainer that he mentioned[1]
This should be [3]. Thanks for your detailed post, I stopped paying attention to Wolfram years ago but there are still gems to be found in his work under the piles of boasting.
> So, while Kelvin did not find what he was looking for there, the direction his effort has jump-started may, in fact, fundamentally describe our reality - as we have yet to learn what kind of manifold structure our universe has. And knot The second sentence seems to have been cut short.