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Our bodies are the time machine.
Rudy Rucker / Computer Scientist
Body
Machines
Time Machine
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I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Rudy Rucker / Computer Scientist
Dead Ends
Dry
Nanotechnology
Thinking
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Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
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Findings
Shortcuts
Traditional
Finding
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If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
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Failing
Print
Rude
Zines
Fails
Web
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The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
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Doe
Facts
Hard
Published
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I like to do things that are surprising and different.
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Different
Surprising
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We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves
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Surfing
Wave
World
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The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
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Magic
Sorcery
Style
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I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
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Book
Happens
Ifs
Predict
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Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
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Running
Evil
Our World
Unfortunately
Morons
Nay
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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
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Computation
Process
Rules
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Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
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Book
Selling
Stories
Automatic
Me Never Story
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Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
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Computation
Convince
Lately
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Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
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Computation
Convince
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Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
Rudy Rucker / Computer Scientist
Computation
Looks
Rude
Way
Everywhere
Look Way Things
Begin
Certain Way
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It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
Rudy Rucker / Computer Scientist
Mind
Process
Realizing
Soothing
Uncontrollable
Inherently
Processes
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The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.
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Heart
Mind
Unpredictable
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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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Doe
Rude
Smart
Million
Million Times
Plug
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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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Book
Rude
Teaching
Absorb
New Kind
Teachings
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One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Rudy Rucker / Computer Scientist
Experiments
Fiction
Nice
Nice Things
Rude
Science Fiction
Carry
Lets
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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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Fiction
Principles
Science Fiction
Wonder
Fiction Writer
Fail
Principle
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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
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Arbitrary
Character
Fiction Writers
Rude
Science Fiction
Work Out
Rules
Work Science World
Writers
Science Fiction Writers
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I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.
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Cosmos
Eye
Mind
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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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Expected
Gnarly
Might
Complex
Inevitably
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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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Advice
Rude
Writing
Awhile
Beginning
Writers
Finish
Sending
Sf
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A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.
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Littles
Long
World
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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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Fiction
Funky
Ideas
Play
Science Fiction
Chew
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At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
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Bangs
Book
Inexpensive
Thinking
Bang
Lightweight
Medium
Net
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If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
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Computation
Computer
Computer Science
Kind
Natural Phenomena
Study
Effect
Phenomena
Suppose
Occur
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It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
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Half
Hours
Obvious
Watches
Particularly
Hour
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Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
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Book
Distribution
Fall
Print
Profitable
Publishing
Rude
Strategy
Deemed
Electronic
Hardly
Putting
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If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
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Answers
Computation
Finals
Halt
Thinking
Life Your Anything
Abundant
Final Answer
Particularly
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Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?
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Spring
Stupid
Thinking
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The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.
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Cutting
Lonely
Simple
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The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.
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Education
God
Math
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The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.
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Math
Mean
School
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It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.
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Dream
Inner Peace
Surfing
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When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden.
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Garden
Smartphones
Thinking
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For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.
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Moon
Shopping
Two
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Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.
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Drawing
Math
Teaching
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What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?
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Science
Space
Drawing
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