fun thought experiment: how would you go about designing a computer if you had never seen one before
I like to think I'd do like @jasonshiga's wonderful design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRxCTeM5pyU …. Or maybe develop some hardware to run John Conway's FRACTRAN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN And there's a masochistic, probably not very wise part of me that wants to start from quantum field theory...
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(Riva: this is such a great generative question, suggesting so many fun answers!)
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I know! it’s my current favorite question- would be cool to organize an event around this topic.. but it needs to get weird- find a way to suspend beliefs and get creative
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