Mirror Worlds

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:34:48 +0000

A comment to my recent post “Streamnets” caught my attention to dig further because it mentioned the concept of Mirror Worlds, a written work by David Gelernter. It’s a fascinating book, quite ahead of its time – it was published back in 1993.

According to Gelernter, “[Mirror Worlds] are software models of some chunk of reality, some piece of the real world going on outside your window”. These pieces of the real world can be of diverse natures:

David Gelernter on Bruno Pedro

Mirror Worlds