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.
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Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.
I suppose I sort of like effects that have some organic elements rather than ones that are entirely generated by a computer. Just because, no matter how complex the algorithm is, it's still an algorithm.
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
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