Continental Realism and Computation: Turing's Propaganda

FIRST off, I would like the reader to examine this computer function. This is a rule called Rule 30, discovered and coined by Stephen Wolfram [1]. This is a determined simple cellular automaton rule, easily describ-able (basically, if the top set of pixels, are present, it computes the pixel below line by line and so on). It can be manipulated on a set of black and white tiles by hand without an ordinary computing machine for instance. I’ll return to this later.Although academic scholars are trained not to generalise, para-academics might afford themselves some informal naivety. So it is that continental philosophy – a term originally coined by Analytic Philosophers to describe a bunch of people who ‘don’t do what they do’ – has had extremely little to say about computer science and the possible reality of computation.