[Tues., 28 JUN 05 (I)] - A New Kind of Science: The NKS ForumA New Kind of Science: The NKS Forum
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Tues., 28 JUN 05 (I)
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Posted by: Steve Zimmerman
Hi. Sorry if I seem a bit defensive. I've had bad experiences
both flaming and being flamed, so I'm just going to post my
notes and not read any responses.
I am actively studying _NKS_, and I enjoy it greatly. It is an
exceedingly great achievement; I also disagree with it on
several fundamental levels, which perhaps I will discuss in
other posts.
Dr. Wolfram writes, "But I have never found a way to make general networks similarly easy, and I am beginning to suspect that they may be fundamentally difficult for brains to handle."
(P. 1177, col 2.2)
It is remarkable that what is known as the TCP/IP stack in computer science has been used for decades and is still in active use today, seeing that it makes computer networks reducible and extremely simple to the human brain.
This stack is:
--------------------
APPLICATION
--------------------
TRANSPORT
--------------------
NETWORK
--------------------
LINK
--------------------
Therefore, perhaps a way to make general networks simple to the human brain would be something like the following (in pseudo-Mathematica):
Map[TCP/IP_STACK, {general_networks}] -> {TCP/IP_stack[general_networks]}
or
Map[general_networks, {TCP/IP_stack}] -> {general_networks[TCP/IP_stack]}
or
Add[{TCP/IP_stack[general_networks]}, {general_networks[TCP/IP_stack]}].
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