[mdonahoe]

Found a pdf linked from his Wikipedia page

http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72mo...

Though I must admit I don’t really understand it. I was expecting automata to be referenced somewhere.

I enjoyed A New Kind of Science, though I feel like it would have been a much shorter book if Wolfram included less self-aggrandizing.

[MengerSponge]

It's the paper that established "emergent phenomena" as an interesting and viable field of inquiry. When you understand it, it changes the way you think about the world.

It's more fundamental than automata papers, so of course it doesn't address automata, but automata papers should reference it.

"A New Kind of Science proposed ideas that were not new, were not kind, and were not science. Discuss."