American - Scientist | March 22, 1946 -
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Rudy Rucker
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Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
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But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
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Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
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Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
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If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
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If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
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All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
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It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
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Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
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