I’m often asked what exactly I’m working on here. Though the “exactly” part makes it hard to answer, I’m getting closer. It’s an approach based on the assumption that there are deep similarities among complex systems in spite of the superficial differences among them — and, moreover, that we can learn about one system from…
Category: Complex Systems
Is There a Cosmic Computational Cloud?
Is there a cosmic computational cloud? And how would we know? While watching a dragonfly fly once, I wondered whether the little creature’s little brain had enough computational power to execute the complicated maneuvers that I saw: flying, of course; even harder, landing; harder in a different way, returning time and again to the same spot; mating while flying seems particularly tricky; and eating, for that matter; and more. So I got to wondering if maybe more is going on than we see.