Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-15 Thread Bob Logan
Dear Friends - please do not take the following critique as disrespectful but the following amusing thoughts came into my head as I read that the cosmos is engaged in computing and is a cosmic computer. During the age of polytheism the different aspects of the cosmos were at war with each other

Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-15 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Dear Bob, I am not sure if I have right to reply, but you make a very important remark. The answer is: computing nature performs much more than existing computers. What is computable in computing nature is what nature is able to perform through its continuous changes. Dialectical processes are

Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-15 Thread Robert Ulanowicz
Quoting Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic : > 2. Whatever changes in the states of the physical world there > are, we understand them as computation. Dear Gordana, I'm not sure I agree here. For much of what transpires in nature (not just in the living realm), the metaphor of the dialectic seems