[FRIAM] new Baez/Stay paper on category theory as ako Rosetta stone

[Douglas Roberts]

Ok, now you're really screwing with my mind.  Joan C. (Chandos) Baez (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez) writing a paper on Physics,
Topology, Logic and Computation?

I think not. Bad boy, Carl.

--Doug

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Carl Tollander <carl at plektyx.com> wrote:

> Of possible interest to Category Theory buffs:
>
> John Baez and Mike Stay have a new paper entitled:
>    Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone
> at:  http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf
>
> In the subsequent discussion at the N-Category Cafe
> at:
>
> http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/03/physics_topology_logic_and_com.html#c015742
> Mike Stay talks a bit about Actors in this framework,
> which those who talked to Dale Schumacher several weeks ago after his
> FRIAM talk might find interesting.
>
> (note to Dale, this is a bit different from what I had in mind
> (i.e. a population of heterogenous agents using CT to build and maintain
> neutral networks)
> during our FRIAM conversation, but it gives you a sense of how the
> correspondence between CT and Actors might be established.)
>
> Carl
>
>
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