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Looks more promising than everything-is-the-game-of-life theory.
by aj7 5y ago
Looks more promising than everything-is-the-game-of-life theory.
- bordercases 5y agoI think in the long run they will appear complimentary. Particularly since the Ruliad is meant to represent the space of all possible entanglements.
- iammjm 5y agoThis is also my feeling. Isn't cellular automata also about the possible and impossible transformations? I find both constructor theory and Wolfram project fascinating, refreshing and fun
- adampk 5y agoIt seems like a good sign if these new theories by these big brains (Wolfram/Deutsch) seem to have the same foundational concept of "sequence"? Weinstein's doesn't seem to have the same basis
- emteycz 5y agoHow come? If constructor theory is promising, then Wolfram's theory should be just as promising. Both are unproven and the ideas are not extremely different.
- DonHopkins 5y agoPlease resist giving Steven Wolfram solitary credit for anything and everything related to cellular automata. He already does that just fine for himself. ;) A few other important but less self-aggrandizing cellular automatists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Margolus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Margolus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Toffoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Toffoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvy_Ray_Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvy_Ray_Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Rucker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Rucker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cellular_automatists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cellular_automatists
- emteycz 5y agoI still don't understand how come Deutsch's theory is supposedly more promising than Wolfram's.
- DonHopkins 5y agoMaybe because it acknowledges the work of other people in the field. ;)
- _0ffh 5y agoNot to forget this bit, trying to link physics and cellular automata in 1969! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space
- DonHopkins 5y agoNot to be all depressing like Marvin the Paranoid Android, but I happen to think "life" is overrated. ;) There are so many billions of other extremely interesting cellular automata rules besides "life" too, so don't stop once you get bored with life! ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAA67a2-Klk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAA67a2-Klk The really interesting and efficient and deeply physics-related cellular automata rules are reversible (which the Game of Life isn't). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing Reversible computing is any model of computation where the computational process, to some extent, is time-reversible. In a model of computation that uses deterministic transitions from one state of the abstract machine to another, a necessary condition for reversibility is that the relation of the mapping from states to their successors must be one-to-one. Reversible computing is a form of unconventional computing. Due to the unitarity of quantum mechanics, quantum circuits are reversible, as long as they do not "collapse" the quantum states they operate on.