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How 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 ago
  Please 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 ago
    I still don't understand how come Deutsch's theory is supposedly more promising than Wolfram's.
    • DonHopkins 5y ago
      Maybe because it acknowledges the work of other people in the field. ;)
      • emteycz 5y ago
        That's nice (no sarcasm intended), but - wrt. physics itself - absolutely irrelevant.
        • emteycz 5y ago
          And I'm writing this because I hoped for an explanation, btw...
  • _0ffh 5y ago
    Not 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