Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

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It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

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But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

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One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

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In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

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Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

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All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

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