Re: [math-fun] Steven Krantz's review of A New Kind of Science

At 12:58 AM -0800 11/20/02, Thane Plambeck wrote:

<http://www.math.wustl.edu/~sk/wolfram.pdf>http://www.math.wustl.edu/ ~sk/wolfram.pdf

One could probably write an entire Ph.D. dissertation in the sociology of science on why Krantz would write: For instance, Rule 30 says (page 27) "take the new color of the cell to be whatever the previous color of its left-hand neighbor was." It is astonishing to me that the entire function of the universe -- from the creation of the Mona Lisa to my current state of dyspepsia -- emanates from a rule such as this. Paul