[Noisebridge-discuss] Philosophy and Computer Language Question

[Gopiballava Flaherty]

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On Dec 30, 2011, at 13:08, Caleb Grayson <calebgrayson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well.. I'm not sure. I'm more of a philosopher than a computer scientist. 
> 
> In Whitehead's Process Philosophy he said everything in reality is a function or process that takes in the entire universe at every moment and spits out Actual Occasions that become apart of the Creative Advance, the history of functional  results in time and space. 
> 
> There is a question as to what time an space are. It is m suspicion that functions and their solutions are not in time and space, but time and space are  in functions and their solutions. Why would times and spaces for which nothing is happening be generated by an efficient system?  
> CS, if I understand correctly, time and space have to be predefined by establishing their numerical domains first. 
> I'm hoping CS in its attempt to simulate reality can give inside into it. 
> 
> Of course CS being a rational/material system has no place to calculate for spirit/soul outside of its system which Whitehead does allow for. 
> 
> On Dec 30, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Will Sargent <will.sargent at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> Are you talking about multi-agent systems?
>> 
>> Will. 
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