* Susskind (
[email protected] ) well, I don't have
questions for him; but if I did, I wouldn't hesitate to try.
Worst that happens? Nothing. It disappears into the aether.
Or you get an automated response. Or a secretary. Or a grad
student helper (whoever his #2 is). Or maybe you'll get him.
Your message might go *plonk*. It might get a curt response.
Or might get just what you're hoping for.
Anyway I'm going off-track as always
I like CA models as well. They're especially useful in
physical modeling I think - like fracture analysis, and
allows us to build a kind of "knitting machine" with
patterns to knit the Universe with.
I got his big 1000 page book a few years back from the
library. Realized by page 83 that it was getting
repetitious. They're akin to setting up knitting machines
with knit, purl, loop, drop or whatever the terminology for
knitting is. [since programming is historically *based* on
paper patterns for sewing machines in the.. hm.. 18th or
17th century I think - it's no surprise that they share a
lot of commonalities]
Anyway, that's when I had a few questions.
It's not that a knitting machine Universe is wrong; I think
his model has some AMAZING strengths that are a vast
improvement upon mathematics by mathematicizing programming,
language, historical facts, knowledge representation. His
new language is _amazing_ and reminds me of working in
Excel, which is my forte. I like it a lot.
But.. it goes back to precision. We can have our knitting
machines simultaneously knitting reality as we go
(constructionalist, which is my tendancy as well - and why
CA is so darned appealing) - yet the unknitted remains an
issue. Still, I think his model is potentially powerful
enough to carry us through another century or two, if
mathematical formulas can be recast in his way and much of
language incorporated into it.
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[5]Kenneth Udut Eventually though, I think the nature of the
experiential self; that of choice; will need full addressing
by some these models, even CA. We're getting a tendency
towards a deterministic view of things... and I think a lot
of things that are currently considered
reasonable/rational/free will/choice/uncertainty/ambiguity
*will* get resolved.
But - until the "us" is fully addressed, the "nowness" of
experience... attempts at full objectivity will remain
useful fictions... until they can tell me what my next
thought will be
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[10]Kenneth Udut [of course they can tell me what my next
thought will be as I think it and before I'm aware of it...
but what I mean is a thought that will be, oh, 5 minutes
from now at some precise time - that sort of thing]
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