“Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.”
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Rudolf "Rudy" von Bitter Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor, and published a number of software packages. Rucker is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His forty published books include novels, collections, and non-fiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism. His 2006 *Mathematicians in Love* was an example of a transreal novel. His early cyberpunk four-book series was republished in 2010 as *The Ware Tetralogy*. Rucker’s 2007 novel, *Postsingular* was something of a return to the cyberpunk style, as was the 2009 sequel, *Hylozoic*, in which every object on Earth comes to life. Rucker’s autobiography, *Nested Scrolls*, appeared in 2011. Recent novels include *Turing & Burroughs*, *Return to the Hollow Earth*, and *Million Mile Road Trip*. [(Source)][1] [1]: https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/about/
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“Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.”
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“Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.”
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“A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.”
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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 th...”
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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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“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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“Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.”
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“I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.”
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“Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.”
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“It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.”
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