[betty boop]

Thought you might find this interesting.... Wolfram certainly has some quite unusual and interesting insights into a subject matter that has seemed quite settled in biological science....

[RightWhale]

Wolfram's idea is new. It might replace much of the current thought on evolution versus creation. Goes off in a new direction.

[Alamo-Girl]

Very interesting post! Thank you!

[Nebullis]

Thought you might find this interesting...

I do. I largely agree. I don't agree with Wolfram's pretense that these ideas are new. They are culled from the biology literature.

[beckett]

I saw Wolfram recently on Charlie Rose, BB. Geez, he was all over the map. I sense a taste of the same problem in the quotes offered above. Wolfram has the pasty complexion and nervous, disconnected chatter of a guy who stays up all night every night staring at a computer screen and puzzling out the minute details of an arcane theory, which, if the articles I've read recently are to be believed, is exactly how he has lived for the past ten years.

I have yet to read the book. Judging by the above prose, it looks like it might be rough sledding, although I'm always happy to see somebody get a dig in on "random" natural selection.

What I really want to know, and what I haven't heard any of his peers yet weigh in on, is: Does he offer anything new?

Did you enjoy the book, BB?

[Seeker204]

Interesting idea; I forced myself to peruse the entire document, but I think that working outside of the scientific community was a bad idea. He doesn't seem very up-to-date on his ideas. That a simple computer program could emulate what we see in nature is hardly surprising. Have you looked at a spiderweb lately? The guy attacks the idea of survival of fittest in a couple of valid ways, but what he doesn't understand is that the theory does explain everything. He doesn't give enough ideas for me to accept them, and I doubt that most scientists will accept them either.