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Nature 417, 381-382 (23 May 2002) | doi:10.1038/417381a

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Science is a computer program

John L. Casti1

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If complexity arises from simple rules, should we rethink how to do science?

This is a spectacular, iconoclastic book in almost every sense that matters — in the scope of its ideas, in its claims about science, in its sheer physical size, and in many other ways too, both good and less good. Given the book's claims and its author, it is bound to attract widespread attention and scrutiny (see, for example, Nature 417, 216–218; 2002).