Who here has read the book "a new kind of science" written by Stephen Wolfram?
He seems to present an argument which leans favorably towards moving slowly out of the idea of the continuum.
I wanted to use this page to talk about the nature of discrete elements of time, space, substance, whatever, and the modeling of systems. I'll be posting some crazy ideas surrounding space and time in relation to CA systems that i have been trying to create and formalize and i am interested in what other people's opinions are towards modeling and constructing discrete abstract systems. Pardon me if i have overlooked many features of the description, but i fail to see any actual "model" of a complete COSA operating system. Because of this i do believe that there is still much value to be had in terms of flushing out a more tangible abstract model of a COSA system. Considering that a COSA system does not yet exist we are faced with the dilemma covered elsewhere in an attempt to implement the operating system in a virtual machine. I am no programming expert but i do feel that "adapting" COSA to the current language and processing schemes will not necessarily allow a smooth transition to a "natural" COSA scheme (one where the chip architecture is designed for such). It will give much insight no doubt as to how the structure will look, but i do believe that it is important to also have a "pure model" of how the system operates and what it is logically composed of.
I'm not a logician, i'm essentially a fool who knows how to operate some nanoscience tools + do some nanostructure synthesis. Regardless, i'm really interested in signal transduction and the design of "functional structures", and i think that there are so many exploitable physical, electrical and optical properties at the nanoscale that we can use to ponder and create new "functional element" designs and systems... Remember that it is just now that optical elements are seeing a pathway for integration with current silicon.