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Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 12:26
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Subject: 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
No, your state of dyspepsia emanates from the
CORRECT statement of rule 30,
which is sufficiently complex to explain
everyting from quarks to sociology, not
to mention shit and Shinola.