From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 08:10:42 MDT
On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 03:03 am, Amara D. Angelica wrote:
> Kurzweil reviews Wolfram’s book, 'A New Kind of Science'
>
> KurzweilAI.net, May 14, 2002
>
> May 14 -- In "A New Kind of Science," published today by Wolfram Media,
> Stephen Wolfram asserts that cellular automata -- simple programs
> repetitively run -- underlie much of the real world. He even says the
> entire
> Universe itself is a big cellular-automaton computer.
This is the logical fallacy of "converting a conditional". Cellular
automata produce certain patterns. The Universe itself produces those
same patterns. Therefore it is a cellular automata.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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