Ed,
Your comments on A New Kind of Science are interesting...
And the reference to 'a new kind of science' is, in fact, to Stephan
Wolfram's most recent 'opus mangus' of over 1000 pages by the same name A
New Kind of Science.
Some of you may have seen my review of this book, which appeared
At
www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/notebooks/ cellular-automata.html
Wolfram's book is reviewed as a rare blend of monster raving egomania
and utter batshit insanity ... (a phrase I would like to have
emblazoned on my gravestone, except that I don't plan on dying, and if I
do die I plan on being
