Professor, Standish, Speaking about Wolfram, some ten years ago, Wolfram opined that "why listen for ETI's when we can use computers to generate all we need to know about Alien civilizations." I tried looking after what Dr. Wolfram meant. specifically, when he said that, but to know avail. Perhaps it was just foot-in-mouth disease, or Dr. Wolfram waxed too, eloquently, or what? H went on to suggest that if we needed designs for a starship from somewhere else, all we needed to do was computer generate it-once we had the trick of generating a description of an Alien civilization.
Perhaps yourself, who successfully has postulated a universe from Nothing (Theory of Nothing), or Professor Marchal, could have a whack at Wolfram's proposition? Would we need gargantuan, grapheme, quantum computer server farms, to undertake this colossal, task, or uncovering ET's emanating from a gigantic, statistical, program? Wolframs idea was why search, why go, when we can work magic through data processing. Can you or anyone else, advise. Thanks. Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sat, Sep 28, 2013 10:15 pm Subject: Re: The confluence of cosmology and biology On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 08:53:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 28 September 2013 21:15, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > > > > On 28 Sep 2013, at 09:44, LizR wrote: > > > > So not an ongoing computation performed by the universe, > > > > What does that mean? > > > > Actually I think I got confused, it isn't Max T who suggested that, but > didn't someone like John Conway suggest the universe could be something > like a game of life? I hate to say it, but probably Stephen Wolfram is the biggest proponent of this. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
