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"... Nowadays, with a daring that might have dazzled St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, two titans of the computer world argue that everything in the universe is a kind of computer. Their sensational idea originally enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity in the late 1980s, when one of the two, Ed Fredkin, proposed a particularly grandiose version of the idea. Now the idea is enjoy-
ing renewed publicity thanks to the publicity campaign run by the other man,
Stephen Wolfram, to promote his book on the topic... "
Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer, Mon., July 1, 2002 (SF Chronicle)
and,
"In a word, I suggest that the supernatural entities of religion are, in some sort, cybernetic models built into the larger cybernetic system in order to correct for noncybernetic computation in a part of that system.
"I do not believe anybody has said this but I do not think that this view of religion contradicts what has been said by others - the religious, the mystical, and the scientific. There is therefore no conflicting hypothesis against which mine can be tested.
"I have been reading over The Cloud of Unknowing and most of the traps against which the author warns the would-be contemplative are precisely the patterns of purposive thought."
Gregory Bateson, They Threw God Out Of The Garden
(published in CoEvolutionary Quarterly, Winter 1982, pp. 62-67)
and,
"... paraphrasing Leibniz' Monadology... should this growingly large host of impositions prove to be generally amenable to such systems (this is the hard and a priori neither obvious nor reasonable part of the discussion)then we shall ultimately discover these disparate systems to all be identically constrained by an infinite number of qualitatively, and if you will, self consistent, requirements." Mitch Feigenbaum, finder of the "Butterfly Effect".
More on Nature's "natural operating system" found via the bottom of http://familycology.org . Looking forward to this forum's typical hight standard of comments and questions. YL
ing renewed publicity thanks to the publicity campaign run by the other man,
Stephen Wolfram, to promote his book on the topic... "
Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer, Mon., July 1, 2002 (SF Chronicle)
and,
"In a word, I suggest that the supernatural entities of religion are, in some sort, cybernetic models built into the larger cybernetic system in order to correct for noncybernetic computation in a part of that system.
"I do not believe anybody has said this but I do not think that this view of religion contradicts what has been said by others - the religious, the mystical, and the scientific. There is therefore no conflicting hypothesis against which mine can be tested.
"I have been reading over The Cloud of Unknowing and most of the traps against which the author warns the would-be contemplative are precisely the patterns of purposive thought."
Gregory Bateson, They Threw God Out Of The Garden
(published in CoEvolutionary Quarterly, Winter 1982, pp. 62-67)
and,
"... paraphrasing Leibniz' Monadology... should this growingly large host of impositions prove to be generally amenable to such systems (this is the hard and a priori neither obvious nor reasonable part of the discussion)then we shall ultimately discover these disparate systems to all be identically constrained by an infinite number of qualitatively, and if you will, self consistent, requirements." Mitch Feigenbaum, finder of the "Butterfly Effect".
More on Nature's "natural operating system" found via the bottom of http://familycology.org . Looking forward to this forum's typical hight standard of comments and questions. YL