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>Go get the brand new (and hot selling) book by Stephen Wolfram caleld "A new kind of science". He takes cellular automata and runs with it, posing new ideas for randomness, free will, evolution, and the universe in general. Should be interesting.
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>We should both read this book, come back, and discuss. Anyone else hear of the book?

Yeah, I've gotten it - it was my Christmas present last year ;-). Of course, it only took another year and a half before I actually got it. I'm only up to chapter three; it's a huge book. I'm anxious to make a little more progress in it since I think he's just laying the groundwork for his ideas presented in later chapters (that is, it's slow going early on).