Re: NEWS: Eric speaks to Wolfram's perspective

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 21:05:19 MDT


At 08:52 AM 6/22/02 -0700, Rob wrote:

>I draw your attention to a recent comment on nanodot:
> http://nanodot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/21/1936248&mode=thread

>It is a comment by Eric [Drexler] on Wolfram's CA model.

That comment ends:

< we are left with a model of physics that lacks a model of relative motion. >

This rather obvious point has been raised at various times here in the last
few years whenever the CA model was proposed as a *literal* account of
reality. I was hoping Wofram might have some ingenious solution to the
problem. Seems not.

Damien Broderick



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