This Brief is an essay at the interface of philosophy and complexity research, trying to inspire the reader with new ideas and new conceptual developments of cellular automata. Going beyond the numerical experiments of Steven Wolfram, it is argued that cellular automata must be considered complex dynamical systems in their own right, requiring appropriate analytical models in order to find precise answers and predictions in the universe of cellular automata.
Indeed, eventually we have to ask whether cellular automata can be considered models of the real world and, conversely, whether there are limits to our modern approach of attributing the world, and the universe for that matter, essentially a digital reality.
- ISBN10 6613451819
- ISBN13 9786613451811
- Publish Date 1 January 2012 (first published 2 October 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 July 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Author(s)
- Format eBook
- Pages 117
- Language English