"Whatever you SAY a thing is, it is NOT." Korzybski
Cheers,
Doug McDavid
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:36 AM, <paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Following an idea of Edward Fredkin, he concludes that the universe itself would then be an automaton, like a giant computer. I
I cant believe that anyone seriously thinks the universe *is* a computer,(especially scientists) but
yes, it is a system,
and yes, people tend to see /understand new things in terms of what they know or believe true and associate them to what they recognise as familiar , a well established fact in cognitive science
S Weinberg, : "Wolfram himself is a lapsed elementary
> particle
.....
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