Sunday, September 19, 2010

Response to Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram started a program and he experimented with it. By placing simple rules that would give out a predictable pattern. Then as he continues to enter the rules into his program, the pattern got complicated. One side would have a pattern while the other would be random. No matter how simple something is, there is always a possibility that chaos will occur. As he enters all the rules, the more rules he enters the more random there seems to arise. When he finally enters the last rule, everything becomes a simple pattern again. This experiment is exactly how the world and government functions. Things may be simple but other factors just make it complicated. Simple rules can be misconstrued to something random or complex, sometimes that's just how people or things just interpret rules. Always taking things our of context.

Computers and people are the same in some way. Computers just follow programs and rules, but a human is the one who enters the rules into the computer. Than again, the computer can make a mistake without a person being at fault. There is complexity in everything, sometimes the more complex something is, it's actually quite simple. It's just all in the matter on how you look at it and if you are seeing everything there is to see about it. I know that seeing everything for what it is, is not as easy as it should be. That's why no one should be quick to judge anything until all the facts are known.

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