[Noisebridge-discuss] Philosophy and Computer Language Question

[Brian Morris]

I imagine that if you want to model Reality as a process (ontologically)
you need only a simple environment to model realistically. It amounts to a
paradigm.

Prolog has a rather interesting paradigm philosphically I think. I think
people have also tried to write reality investigations in Lisp, since Lisp
is really a language for writing a language (Prolog is easy to write in
Lisp). Some attempts were called Lisp-2 and Lisp-3.

Brian


On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Gopiballava Flaherty <gopiballava at gmail.com
> wrote:

> How reality is simulated? That's a very broad question. A wind tunnel is a
> simulation of reality. Google Maps and especially route finding and extra
> especially route finding with traffic delays is a reality simulation.
>
> I think most reality simulation tends to be very, very domain specific and
> tends to ignore huge parts of reality to simplify things (eg: determining
> trip duration by speed of road, rather than stepping through the car
> position every second. )
>
> I'd be astonished if more than a tiny handful of reality simulation
> systems contained within their workings anything that resembles the
> philosophical concepts you've outlined.
>
> Thanks,
>
> gopi at iPhone
>
>
> On Dec 29, 2011, at 18:49, ryan rawson <ryanobjc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think simulation of concurrent events, and handling distributed
> concurrency and parallel business logic are fairly orthogonal. Obviously
> there is the matte of performance but that's also an "engineering" problem
> and less so theoretical.
> >
> > Sent from your iPhone
> >
> > On Dec 29, 2011, at 6:14 PM, "Meredith L. Patterson" <
> mlp at thesmartpolitenerd.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 06:35:56PM -0800, Caleb Grayson wrote:
> >>> would anyone have a source they can direct me to where i can get an
> idea of how reality is simulated in computer languages?  Process Philosophy
> states at there are no substantive objects, but that all ‘things’ are
> functions that process experience into results that become ‘mortal’ in the
> Creative Advance of time•space.  this is very similar from my recollection
> of event driven applications.
> >>>
> >>> my particular interest is how simulations handle events in time and
> space.  how does a simulation taken multiple input from multiple functions
> or users and align them in time•space.  what would those functions look
> like?
> >>
> >> You're talking about what we computer scientists call a concurrent
> system. We have several different formalisms for modeling these; well-known
> ones, in no particular order, include Petri nets, Lamport's temporal logic
> of actions, process calculi such as the pi-calculus, and the actor model.
> There are others as well:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science)#Theory
> >>
> >> On the implementation level the actor model is the new hotness these
> days; http://concurrency.cc (occam-pi on the Arduino) uses the
> pi-calculus.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> --mlp
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