If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
From Rudy Rucker
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
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