gordon@stats.ucl.ac.UK ("Gordon Joly, Statistics, UCL") (06/29/88)
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Subject: Deep Thought.
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 88 13:10:51 +0100
From: "Gordon Joly, Statistics, UCL" <gordon%stats.ucl.ac.uk@ESS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Kurt Thearling quotes a quote in AIList Digest V7 #45.
> An interesting quote from the article is "Fredkin believes that
> the universe is very literally a computer and that it is being
> used by someone, or something, to solve a problem."
Excuse my ignorance, but I am not able to judge who is plagiarising
whom. Douglas Adams invented a computer which does just this in "The
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy". Most people regard this novel as a
work of fiction.
Gordon Joly.