Notes

Chapter 12: The Principle of Computational Equivalence


Section 10: Intelligence in the Universe

Animal artifacts Animal communication Animism Artifacts in data Artificial radio signals Astronomical objects Bird songs Complexity and theology Computer communication Dead languages Decompilers Defining intelligence Defining life Detection methods [for SETI] Doubling rules [cellular automata] Earth from space Extraterrestrial life Forms of [engineered] artifacts Forms of living systems Higher perception and analysis History [of extraterrestrial life] [History of] SETI [Ideas of] meaning in programs Mathematical notation Meaning and regularity [Meaning in] molecular biology Messages in DNA Messages to send [to extraterrestrials] Mimesis Minimal cellular automata for sequences Minimal theories Natural radio emissions Origin of life Other examples [of minimal systems] P versus NP [and messages] Physics as intelligence Possible purposes [for systems] Practical arguments [about exterrestrials] Properties [of doubling rules] Purpose in archeology Purposeful computation Recognizing artifacts [Rules implementing] other functions Science fiction [and extraterrestrials] Searching [for doubling rules] Self-reproduction Teleology The weather Theories of communication Whale songs

From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]