Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> More specifically, I would imagine this is Wolfram's assertion that the 
> universe might be a giant CA, which would explain why certain physical 
> quantities have a discrete, "quantum" nature. 

There are a number of people who assert such a thing, actually. Wolfram 
was more summarizing there than inventing, methinks.

Altho I thought his point that even if only one cell was updated at a 
time, we still wouldn't know this, because we would only see updates 
when we ourselves got updated.  Freaky.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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