>>> Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science discusses the universe as a manifestation of cellular automata. (That is, all the complexity of the Universe, according to Wolfram, is generated from very simple rules along lines similar to Conway's Game of Life.) This review of ANKOS by Ray Kurzweil is a fascinating read in itself, and a lot shorter than ANKOS's 1,200 pages. <<< [Gary Robinson's Rants]

This is sort of the same thing that Ubiquity by Mark Buchanan proposes.   I've (wishfully at least) commited myself to reading New Kind of Science by summer's end.  I skimmed Kurzweil's review and have every intention of reading it in it's entirety at some point here in the next few days.

  9:42:13 PM    

The Game of Life page I pointed to earlier is actually pretty cool, worth playing with if you haven't tried GoL before. This page has a lot of info and patterns to try. [Gary Robinson's Rants]

I remember reading of these 'games' in the past, but I didn't really understand their usefullness until finishing Ubiquity : The Science of History . . . or Why the World Is Simpler Than We Think.

  9:32:02 PM    

Clem Snide, Moment In the Sun. Alternative country [Emergent Music]

My first EM Music Review.  Now, all my EM reviews will be fed (via RSS) back into my Radio-based ...useless miscellany music category.

Ain't it kewl!

  8:32:53 AM