Kurzweil on Wolfram

To read: from A&L Daily. Ray Kurzweil weighs in early on Wolfram's A New Kind of Science.

He must have gotten an early copy. Mine's in the mail.

One thing that's appealing about this book bears directly on AKMA's discussion of complexity. It purports to explain that much of science reduces down to a simple set of rules. Therein lies its extreme audacity -- and maybe it's necessary for Wolfram to make his outrageous claims to garner attention from serious scientific circles. There's no doubt that there'll be debunking effort paid to it. If there weren't, it would be a sure sign of Wolfram's failure. But enough blabber -- I haven't even read Kurzweil's article.

May 22, 2002 10:27 AM