An Afternoon at the Recursive Café: Two Threads Interleaving
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Alex and Clot are missing a pretty obvious thing in their actually quite insightful musings. Can anyone tell me what that is?
While reading I remembered "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" where the whole world is a computer and everything in on Earth happened to a random person have a sudden insight about the meaning of life.
My two cents: I think computation is a bedrock concept in the universe, idk about the extent of this importance but it's something that was "discovered" and not "invented"