Notes for the Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul - Rudy Rucker

Notes for The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker
Chapter 2: Eight Digital Philosophies
Chapter 3: The Computational Zoo
Chapter 4: Iteration and Gnarl
Chapter 5: Parallel Thinking
Chapter 6: Wetware Engineering
Chapter 7: The Singularity Hoax
Chapter 8: Hive Mind Buzz
Chapter 9: The Missing Mind
Proposal Long
Chapter 1: The New Worldview
The nature of computation.
Harnessing the flow
Hard and easy.
Hopes and fears.
Exploration: What am I?
Thought Experiment: "Weather or Not"
Chapter 2: Eight Digital Philosophies
Is everything a computation?
A tower of languages.
Without words.
The quantum mind.
Exploration: Merging into the computation.
Thought Experiment: "New Info"
Chapter 3: The Computational Zoo
Stephen Wolfram's four classes of computation.
The Principle of Computational Equivalence.
Feasible computations.
Quantum computation.
Exploration: Debugging your mind.
Thought Experiment: "The Last Cookie"
Chapter 4: Iteration and Gnarl
Moods and fluttering leaves.
Intrinsic Randomness
The fractal of human memory.
The aesthetics of gnarl.
Exploration: Tracking your moods.
Thought Experiment: "On Van Karman Vortex Street"
Chapter 5: Parallel Thinking
Turbulent cellular automata.
Crashing the stock market.
The computational multiverse
Scripting computer games.
Exploration: The many yous.
Thought Experiment: "The Jane Party"
Chapter 6: Wetware Engineering
Genes as software.
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