One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.Rudy Rucker
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
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Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.
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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
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If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
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Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
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