[contingencies]

I'm not classically trained but I've always privately felt that computers are perhaps a fundamentally fraudulent form of escapism which exists merely to model artificial perfection atop the physical world. In obtaining relief from the constant decay of physicalia, humanity obtains a kind demi-deus, Shivan state. While this freedom has granted us the technological wealth of the modern world, it ultimately remains a folly, since even the most shielded and fault-tolerant systems will eventually succumb to chaos[0]. The best we can do is add longevity, the most effective methods for which[1] begin to ape biology and embrace chaos and global non-determinism. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25218687 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

I suppose research physicists have far more developed philosophies along these lines. We do live in interesting times.