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It’s a huge refrain that shows up again every 20 years or so. Wolfram wrote a huge book with this premise, but I don’t think it’s gone anywhere even though it’s
by seanmcdirmid 1y ago
It’s a huge refrain that shows up again every 20 years or so. Wolfram wrote a huge book with this premise, but I don’t think it’s gone anywhere even though it’s surely 25 years old by now.
- robin_reala 1y agoYou can read it for free at https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/ https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/ if you’re interested.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoGEB was similar in a cycle prior. It's cool to dream but the limits of accepted knowledge requires the hard work of assembling data, evidence, and reasoning.
- A_D_E_P_T 1y agoIt's arguably ~2500 years old, dating back to the Pythagoreans, who believed that "all is number" and had a very large and complex system of musical rituals. The modern manifestation is mostly the intellectual product of Konrad Zuse, who wrote "digital physics" in 1969. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics Wolfram, Tegmark, Bostrom, etc. are mostly downstream of Zuse.
- CRConrad 1y ago> Konrad Zuse That...? Ah, yes, that Konrad Zuse.
- Kaijo 1y agoWolfram came to our evolutionary biology department to preach that book about 20 years ago. We all got our heads into cellular automata for a while, but in the end they just don't have the claimed profound explanatory power in real biological systems.