Re: virus: Re:virtuality

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:19:06 -0700


At 11:28 AM 06/01/97 GMT, jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com wrote:
>Alex Williams wrote:
>
>> Its been speculated that reality is, at the base, a very simple cellular
>> automata with a set number of states and transition rules.
>
>Kind of like the way binary is the root of all computer "reality"?

Sounds like Digital Mechanics according to Ed Fredkin.
(Digital Mechanics: an informational process based on reversible
universal cellular automata. Physica D 45 (1990) 254-270 North-Holland)

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