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

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Notes for The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker 5.1: Living With People..................................................................................... 21 5.2: Language..................................................................................................... 21 5.3: Culture ......................................................................................................... 21 5.4: The Group Mind. ......................................................................................... 22 5.5: Computation as Historical Force ................................................................. 23 Chapter 6: Universal Automatism .......................................................................... 23 Chapter 6 Contents.............................................................................................. 23 Eight Digital Philosophies .................................................................................. 23 Hard and easy, exponential time......................................................................... 24 Monisms and Pluralism....................................................................................... 24 Stephen Wolfram’s four classes of computation. ............................................... 25 Intrinsic Randomness.......................................................................................... 25 The Principle of Computational Equivalence..................................................... 25 Explorations ............................................................................................................ 26 Exploration 1: What am I?.................................................................................. 26 Exploration 2: Merging into the computation..................................................... 26 Exploration 3: Debugging your mind. ................................................................ 26 Exploration 4: Tracking your moods. ................................................................. 26 Exploration 5: The many yous............................................................................ 26 Exploration 6: Winning the meme wars. ............................................................ 27 Exploration 7: Being superhuman. ..................................................................... 27 Exploration 8: Living the web. ........................................................................... 27 Exploration 9: Between your thoughts. .............................................................. 27 Thought Experiments.............................................................................................. 28 Thought Experiment 1: “Lucky Number” .......................................................... 28 Thought Experiment 2: “The Million Chakras” ................................................. 28 Thought Experiment 3A: “Teeming”.................................................................. 28 Thought Experiment 4: “Tucker’s Talker”......................................................... 28 Thought Experiment 5: “The Kind Rain”........................................................... 28 Thought Experiment 5A: “URL All Over”......................................................... 28 Thought Experiment 6 “Hello Infinity”.............................................................. 29 Thought Experiment 6A: “The Next Big Thing” ............................................... 29 Thought Experiment 6B: “The Best Show Ever”............................................... 29 Titles ........................................................................................................................... 29 Computation and Reality .................................................................................... 29 Beyond Computers.............................................................................................. 30 Wild Hairs........................................................................................................... 31 Short List of Chapters, January, 2004................................................................. 31 Fragments to Use ........................................................................................................ 32 Communication Via Computer........................................................................... 32 John Walker on Sociology and NKS .................................................................. 32 Sylvia’s Poem for my 39th Birthday .................................................................. 32 Unused Knot ....................................................................................................... 32 Scale-Free ........................................................................................................... 33 Colloquial Meanings of Gnarly .......................................................................... 33 The Web Mind Shtick from my Galaxy Columns.................................................. 33 p. 2
Notes for The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker Loose Ends Not Done ................................................................................................. 38 Chap 1 ................................................................................................................. 38 Chap 2 ................................................................................................................. 38 Chap 3 ................................................................................................................. 38 Chap 4 ................................................................................................................. 39 Chap 6 ................................................................................................................. 39 Research.............................................................................................................. 39 Sidebar Quotes............................................................................................................ 39 1.1 Wheeler: Information vs. Computation ....................................................... 39 1.1.1 Turing: Arithmetic Computation ............................................................... 40 1.1.2 von Neumann: Computers ......................................................................... 40 1.1.4 Masters of Doom, Physics ......................................................................... 41 1.1.5 Hegel: Organic Growth --- or Society ....................................................... 41 Outtakes ...................................................................................................................... 41 Short Chapter-by-Chapter Outline...................................................................... 41 Outline of Chapter One....................................................................................... 42 Bitching About Computers ................................................................................. 42 Quagmire............................................................................................................. 42 My First Computer.............................................................................................. 42 Intro: Why I Hate Computers ............................................................................. 43 Intro Bio: What I Use Computers For................................................................. 43 Hyperspace Topics.............................................................................................. 44 Drafts of the Preface ........................................................................................... 44 Geek Joke Explained........................................................................................... 46 Self-Indulgent Waffling About My Opinions..................................................... 46 False Start on Chapter One, May Have Usable Intro Stuff................................. 46 Levels of Software (The Tao of Duh)................................................................. 47 Bohr’s Walking Stick, Illustrating Stored Program Concept.............................. 47 Repeated Definition of Computation.................................................................. 48 Predictability....................................................................................................... 49 Tractability.......................................................................................................... 50 Was Mrs. Graves my First Grade Teacher?........................................................ 50 Turing-style Details about Pencil and Paper Arithmetic .................................... 50 Two Premature Turing Machine Explanations in Chap One.............................. 51 Footnote on Turing Machine States.................................................................... 53 Beige Box Details ............................................................................................... 53 Confession of Anxiety in Chapter One............................................................... 54 Rap about Halting Being Bad ............................................................................. 54 Feasibility is Relative.......................................................................................... 54 Barlow and the Web............................................................................................ 55 Web Wakes Up ................................................................................................... 55 Game of Life....................................................................................................... 55 Hodgepodge and RainZha................................................................................... 55 Asynchronous Web............................................................................................. 55 Summary of Chapter One ................................................................................... 56 Joke about Von Karman Vortex Street ............................................................... 57 p. 3
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