RE: [Fis] Information and communication

 
Viktoras wrote:
> indeed Cellular Automation approach can provide many
> hints solving structure/information/communication/order
> related issues. The CA principle (just without titling it CA)
> was discussed long long ago by Conrad Zuse in his
> "Calculating space" (1969, C. Zuse. Rechnender Raum.
> Schriften zur Datenverarbeitung, vol. 1, Freidr. Vieweg &
> Sohn, Braunschweig, 1969, 74 pp.)

Cellular automata are usually attributed to von Neumann, who worked on them
in the 1940's with S. Ulam. There is a short story describing how they came
to be at http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/AI/alife/al-ca.htm Of course, history
is always more gradualistic (today S. Wolfram seems to be trying to become
the original inventor), and the earlier Ising lattice models of
ferromagnetism carry a striking resemblance to hardwired cellular automata
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/anglica/Chronology/20thC/Ising/isi_fm00.ht
ml This simple Ising's model already manifests the phase transition
phenomena.

Best regards,
                Aleks

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mag. Aleks Jakulin
http://www.ailab.si/aleks/
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 
Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. 
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