One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. - Rudy Rucker - Quotesmemo.com

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Rudy Rucker

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

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The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

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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.

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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!

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Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

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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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