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Old 7th June 2002, 19:34   #1
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New basis for science

This story could be very interesting. If only I was clever enough to know what the hell Stephen Wolfram's talking about ...
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ok, the pictures of dogs are scaring me now.
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Goddammit! I'm very tempted right now to just browse with images turn OFF for the rest of my life.
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Here it is now, I was just trying to keep you all in suspense...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25621.html
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Alright, this pic was funny at least.

That's an interesting article.

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i read something about that in newsweek, Stephen Wolfram doesn't seem to know what he's talking about either, but it is very interesting.
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Re: New basis for science

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This story could be very interesting. If only I was clever enough to know what the hell Stephen Wolfram's talking about ...
Wow... that's some pretty remarkable stuff. For anybody who is interested in artificial life/intelligence, I highly suggest you research Conway's Game of Life (look in Yahoo's groups... AI is somewhere in there), and other games which manufacture cellular automata. The Game of Life essentially is mock universe existing within an infinitely large checkerboard. Cells are placed on squares according to a set of rules. These rules regulate the life and death cycles of the universe. Over time, patterns will emerge, forming various complex designs. Thus, from unicellular organisms, multicellular "animals" arise.

Wolfram is proposing that rather base the study of scientific phenomenon on mathematical and physical rules, we study the patterns and rules of cellular automata. Throw away your calculator, because the science of tommorow is organic.
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I've read a little bit of that book, (to be honest, I just skimmed).

Most of the earlier sections seem to just be saying "simple things build to create complex things." in a long, drawn-out, convoluted way.
Which isn't really anything new.

But don't listen to me, as I said, I've only skimmed it.
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