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Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
Rudy Rucker
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Rudy Rucker
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 22
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Rudolf v. B. Rucker
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It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.
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For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.
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Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?
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I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone the Mind is everywhere.
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But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
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In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
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Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
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All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
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At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
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