I said something similar about A New Kind of Science, and that was ridiculously underwhelming. I respect Wolfram like crazy, but I want my money back on that thing :)
Do you feel that Wolfram can rightly claim the thesis offered and explored in the book? Regardless, how well do you think he supported the thesis?
The thesis of A New Kind of Science is something like "systems comprised of a small number of simple rules can perform arbitrarily complex computations."
The book proceeds to support the thesis. The content is comprised of descriptions of such systems, corresponding Mathematica execution trace diagrams, and analysis. These analyses are related to a ambitiously large scope of natural phenomenon and scientific knowledge.
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I said something similar about A New Kind of Science, and that was ridiculously underwhelming. I respect Wolfram like crazy, but I want my money back on that thing :)
Do you feel that Wolfram can rightly claim the thesis offered and explored in the book? Regardless, how well do you think he supported the thesis?
The thesis of A New Kind of Science is something like "systems comprised of a small number of simple rules can perform arbitrarily complex computations."
The book proceeds to support the thesis. The content is comprised of descriptions of such systems, corresponding Mathematica execution trace diagrams, and analysis. These analyses are related to a ambitiously large scope of natural phenomenon and scientific knowledge.