OO Life Posted by: amrosama in Untagged  on Oct 24, 2008

I was sitting in the back of a bus on my way to college, the I started thinking about a joke I’ve heard in codecall that says “I want to change the world but they wont give me the source code”.

Then I asked myself what would the source code of the world look like?

Object oriented theory stroke me hard, people sleep, walk, eat, and process food the same way , so when they want to wake up the call a function “wakeup(datetime.now());” and when eat call the function “eat((foodtype)pizza);” and when we need to learn a new skill we simply declare the class. But the main difference is that humans and animals write their own code without debugging.

 But the real question is: did programming come from life? Or did life come from programming? 


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shibbythestoner
October 24, 2008
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Programming came from life (IMO). Coding is just our way of simulating the real world. Otherwise it might be much easier to make things (eg programs or machines) conscious.

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daah
October 24, 2008
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doesthe same thing apply to math or even physics which our world relies on..
i mean physics isnt a way to simulate the world its rules of the world that human understood!

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shibbythestoner
October 24, 2008
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In my opinion, physics (the way we think of it) is just our measurement of forces that are otherwise unexplained. Consider a comet moving through space - can you decompile it? Can you view any scripting, or even any numbers? These are things we have invented to either measure or simulate something. It seems true that there are rules that all seems to follow, and indeed it could be SIMULATED using programming (given a very good computer, and an even better programmer), but it would never be the real thing. I would warn against confusing computers and the real world until some real evidence is given to think otherwise.
That said, there is an interesting argument that the universe is made up of many, many, "yes" and "no"s - much like our binary system.
I am not sure either way, but if the universe was "programmed" I hope it doesn't have a return(0) anywhere.

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Brandon W
October 24, 2008
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I read that. It is the Favourite Quote thread.

That is really interesting, I never thought of that.

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Jordan
October 24, 2008
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Good question. One day we may make a program that simulates life and a world. I don't think it is impossible.

You have some deep thoughts though - what is life, I believe is the essence of your question. Are we a part of a program? If so, how large is that program? I mean, we think in GBs and TBs but to generate everything we know would be unimaginable.

Excellent blog!

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WingedPanther
October 25, 2008
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My opinion: Math provides a set of logical structures that are self consistent. Physics attempts to determine which of those logical structures also describes our observations. Programming utilizes those logical structures to create models of things around us (bank accounts, notepads, etc) and to store/retrieve data.

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