by Rudy Rucker, The LifeBox, the [Sea Shell], and the Soul: What GnarlY Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life , and How To Be Happy

http://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox/

the LifeBox is not unlike a WebLog/[Life Blog]/etc. I hadn't originally realized how essential images, videos, and sound clips (Multi Media) would be for the lifebox, but, duh, that's obv, isn't it, especially since writing is, like, hard. The linking issue is the biggie that makes the Lifeblog (Life Streams), or the regular blog, still not quite like a lifebox. Well, do a first pass by some automated linker, tweak it a little, and then let it loose. Shovelware your lifebox data onto the web and let people WiKi up the links themselves.

Digital Philosophy?

The Meaning Of Life is to create GnarlY [Class Four] Computation.

• note that Cosma Shalizi's critique of Stephen Wolfram's New Kind Of Science challenges this classification of Cellular Automata (referencing [Lawrence Gray]'s review)

In my new Lifebox book, I rhetorically ask, "Suppose that at some point you find society’s Hive Mind unacceptably hysterical and debased. What can you do about it?" and then I suggest, "You can emigrate internally --- not to another hive, but to a [SubHive]. The idea is simply to put less emotional involvement (Engage Ment) into the national hive mind and more into some smaller grouping. Without actually leaving the country you can emotionally leave the big hive." (Urban Archipelago)

On the enlightenment front, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul ends with a discussion of six keys to happiness, drawn from considerations involving six successively higher levels of gnarly computation. And these will make a nice note upon which to end this article.

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