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.
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.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
At San Jose State I got very interested in the work of Stephen Wolfram, who wrote a pretty famous book called A New Kind of Science.
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
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