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From: "thomas malloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fw: NKS 2006 Wolfram Science Conference
- What does computational irreducibility mean for supercomputing?
- Is there an algorithm for telling if an object was designed?
Would such an algorithm prove the existence of a designer of life?
- Will the most important nanomaterials be intrinsically random?
I fail to understand how a random material could be anything other than a
mishmash of atoms.
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Unfortunately, no simple statement can substitute for a perusal of Wolfram's
"A New Kind of Science" and confronting the printouts of hundreds of runs of
the cellular automata whose properties are displayed. Wolfram says he wrote
Mathematica in part to be able to do this work.
It is altogether astonishing that some seeds for cellular automata lead
quickly to sterile order and stasis and others, seemingly similar, generate
progressive unlimited randomity. It is further astonishing that Wolfram
demonstrates that these 'random' manifestations can do Boolean logic and
arithmetic operations, leading to 'intelligence'.
The bottom line is that the overwhelming complexity of the manifest universe
is arguably the result of the operation of something as simple as cellular
automata, and that we have no hope of discovering the nature of that seed.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Mike Carrell
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