Rudy Rucker

American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher · United States · Academics · Born 1946 · age 80

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Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which both won Philip K. Dick Awards.

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2016“In the 1970s I even got to meet Kurt Gödel a few times. The king of the logicians.”In their wordsRucker, Rudy (2016). The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. 2nd edition. Transreal Books.Read the whole statement

“The meaning of life is beauty and love.”In their wordsRucker, Rudy (2016). The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. 2nd edition. Transreal Books.Read the whole statement

“One last thought: perhaps our universe is perfect.”In their wordsRucker, Rudy (2016). The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. 2nd edition. Transreal Books.Read the whole statement

2008“My sense is that, in the long run, Mother Nature always wins. Cautionary note: Mother Nature's win may not include the survival of the pesky human race!”In their wordspp. 228-229Read the whole statement

“Will molecular manufacture give all of us the luxuries we want? No. Skewed inverse power-law distribution of valued qualities is an intrinsic property of the natural world.”In their wordsp. 233Read the whole statement

“But, come on, if you want to smoothly transmogrify a blade of grass into some nanomachines simulating a blade of grass, then why bother grinding up the blade of grass at all?”In their wordsp. 239Read the whole statement

1989Philip K. Dick AwardAward1983Philip K. Dick AwardAward1946Born22 March 1946

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In the 1970s I even got to meet Kurt Gödel a few times. The king of the logicians.
2016, Rucker, Rudy (2016). The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. 2nd edition. Transreal Books., Own words
So, okay, I’ll go for the universal-automatist answer to “What is reality?”Reality is made of gnarly computations.
2016, Rucker, Rudy (2016). The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. 2nd edition. Transreal Books., Own words
The meaning of life is beauty and love.
2016, Rucker, Rudy (2016). The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. 2nd edition. Transreal Books., Own words