<P>Hi James,
<P>You are putting a great effort to program an automaton in perl. Keep it up.
<P>However, in his book, Wolfram claims (doesnt prove) that many biological mechanisms (including human disease manifestations) can be explained using automatons. How far do you agree or believe in this theory. I feel that biological processes and nature are not that simplistic and will still require classical newtonian physics/math/chemistry to explain its complexities.
<P>Any thought on this ? Any others wish to air their thoughts? Wolfram is making a remarkable (and startling) theory here, so it will help all of us to share our thoughts on it and satisfy our intellectual curiosities.
<P>thanks
<P>parthav jailwala
<P> <B><I>James Freeman <jmfreeman@attbi.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi Folks,<BR><BR>If any of you have any spare time over the holidays and are interested <BR>in Cellular Automata as shown in Steven Wolfram's book: A New Kind of <BR>Science.<BR>I have made a Perl module which implements one dimensional <BR>non-totalistic cellular automata that can be found at:<BR><BR>http://search.cpan.org/author/JMFREEMAN/Cellular-Automata-Wolfram-1.1/<BR><BR>This may seem off topic, but there are some interesting phenotypes which <BR>can be modeled with cellular automata, and it is a very interesting <BR>topic in its own right.<BR><BR>See:<BR><BR>http://www.wolframscience.com/<BR><BR>for more details.<BR><BR>Warmest Regards,<BR><BR>Jim<BR><BR>-- <BR>Bioinformatics Consultant<BR>jmfreeman@attbi.com<BR>“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”<BR>- Pablo Picasso<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Bi
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