Well, I nearly pursued computational theory of mind and the
"mathematical universe but I had to put it aside for a more
integrated set of notions. Similar to the mathematical multiple
universes (which I reject as an objective reality), I *do*
embrace a form of "reality of fictional realities" cognitively.
I see a healthier psychological integration as including seeing
time not as an arrow with a simple cause effect or a block
universe slice model but rather someone incorporating all of
their fictional selves as part-of-self. The roads-not-taken as
valid as the roads taken - not in a literal sense of "the me
that got the funding to continue college studies walking on a
similar planet somewhere" but rather an integration of the
fictional within as a reality that very concretely influences
our current choices in _this_ timeline that we're pursuing. It's
not-ready-for-prime-time as an idea, just something I've been
toying with. Cellular automata is quite simple from a conceptual
POV. I analogize to sewing machines with pattens. I remember
doing the "Game of Life" in BASIC on my little Tandy Color
Computer 2 in the 80s from a computer magazine and doing the
same thing as a programming exercise in college, so the concept
is simple enough both to comprehend and to program. My interests
are more in the conceptual rather than the precision, along
these lines, I place my interests in the "High Accuracy, Low
Precision" quadrant. I had a *little* jump start in
self-organizing systems, chaos and complexity theories back in
1990/91, mostly through late night talks over a couple of beers
with a professor who was obsessed by them.. and by fractal...
and the number 17. It's likely that [1]Jera Wolfe will surpass
me on precision in his studies: again, precision is not my goal
but accuracy with low precision. It allow me to provide
conceptual bridges between people at different levels of
comprehension ability, to provide analogies that are not perfect
(none are) but are workable to a large population, as I am in
contact with people of all ages and education levels online and
in real life, so my comprehension is to act as an asistant.
References
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https://www.facebook.com/jera.wolfe.3?hc_location=ufi
