Re: particles have free will

Posted by Pamela McCorduck on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/particles-have-free-will-tp2655680p2655756.html

I wonder if Conway isn't making a little fun of the notion of free will here, as many scientists today scoff at the idea. I met Conway once. An interesting experience.

On Apr 18, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:

According to Conway (Game of Life inventor), particles have free-will. See http://kk.org/ct2/2009/03/particles-have-free-will.php for a summary and http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf for the paper.

Seems that every time I turn Netlogo off, I'm committing murder....

Robert

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