Readings Discussion 3
Artifacts of Space and Time.
Greg Egan's PERMUTATION CITY.
The one-sheet two-page handout asks you to work out some peculiarities of representations of Time and Space when the world is represented as CELLULAR or RASTER with a MOORE neighborhood and TOROIDAL surface. Please answer the questions. There may be more than one correct answer.
Greg Egan's PERMUTATION CITY describes the architecture of a simulated world in enough detail that you can begin to examine the representations of reality that the fictitious programmer has coded. What are the computational representations that were made? Why were they made the way they were? What was gained or lost by these representationsl decisions? Please write a 2-3 page discussion of the likely reasons for the choices that were made.