----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Collins" <me@thisisnurgle.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:55 AM
> Something worth noting:
>
> Wolfram was not the first person to put foward the idea of using Cellular
> Automata in a way to simulate the universe. That award goes to John Conway
> (the guy who created The Game of Life).
If you want to give credit where it is due, give it to Edward Fredkin. He
was the first to suggest that CA such as Conway's Life could be used as a
foundation for physics. (Which is why I posted the link to
http://digitalphysics.org/ )
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