If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.
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.
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
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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