[ExI] Computronium life on Rudy Rucker's blog

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Wed Feb 18 20:03:42 UTC 2009


At 07:52 PM 2/18/2009 +0000, BillK:

>There is a paper published in 'Science' 1991
>Link to paper: <http://leitl.org/amato.pdf>
>See:
>Ivan Amato. Speculating in precious computronium: a new computer
>embodies an architecture that - to its creators - mimics the structure
>and dynamics of physical reality. (Norman Margolus' and Tommaso
>Toffoli's Cellular Automaton Machine 8, or CAM-8). Science, August 23
>1991, v253, n5022, p856-7.
>
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>
>I'd ask Eugene if he was the culprit.

Yeah, I should have noticed Amato, but google is untrustworthy with 
stuff like this. Eugen introduced it to exi.





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