From: Mark Collins (me@thisisnurgle.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 09:55:17 MDT
Something worth noting:
Wolfram was not the first person to put foward the idea of using Cellular
Automata in a way to simulate the universe. That award goes to John Conway
(the guy who created The Game of Life).
The reason it's called "The Game of Life" ismore than just a publicity thing.
In theory, given a large enough amount of memory, the simulation can create
artificial life which responds to its own universe in a similar way that life
in our universe does.
So give credit to the people who deserve it, not the people who use PR
companies to give the impresison that it's them who deserve it.
Nurgle
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