Friday, January 16, 2015

Codosophy, irony, and singularity




Codosophy (code of sophia, or the merging of coding and philosophy). Science is reverse code engineering of some aspect of reality into some domain-specific (programming) language (DSL).


Irony. According to Richard Rory (Contingency, irony, and solidarity), ironists are never certain of their final vocabularies programming languages.


Singularity. Source code written in scientific DSLs compile to two different kinds of target code: computer simulations or active biomolecular/chemical/atomic assemblies. The latter — assemblies, not simulations — will threaten live among us.


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