Submission + - Non-digital computing theory from Rudy Rucker
destinyland writes: "Mathematician Rudy Rucker argues that any natural process can be regarded as a computation — which means "The digital thing is sort of a red herring." If one system can be "mapped" using another — since they share a recurring pattern — a universal computation is expressed in any number of systems, including living beings. Taking the idea to an extreme, he's explored the idea in a new science fiction book asking if
existing patterns approximate ongoing patterns, could it generate partial predictions of the future?"
