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i somehow stumbled on a site covering zuse's concept of calculating space when i was a teenager, and i think the idea really struck me a lot harder than it seem
by pasquinelli 4y ago
i somehow stumbled on a site covering zuse's concept of calculating space when i was a teenager, and i think the idea really struck me a lot harder than it seemed at the time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space
- BoiledCabbage 4y agoAn English translation of his paper: http://www.mathrix.org/zenil/ZuseCalculatingSpace-GermanZenil.pdf http://www.mathrix.org/zenil/ZuseCalculatingSpace-GermanZeni... Essentially thoughts about physics grounded in the digital based cellular automata. Haven't finished reading it yet, so can't judge it one way or another.
- le-mark 4y ago> physics grounded in the digital based cellular automata. The really curious thing to me is how Zuse, Von Neumann and Turing all went this direction at about the same time.
- nielsbot 4y ago“multiple discovery“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
- nielsbot 4y agoIsn’t this what Wolfram’s book is about too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science