Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Physarum Polycephalum Syllogistic L-Systems and Judaic Roots of Unconventional Computing Cover

Physarum Polycephalum Syllogistic L-Systems and Judaic Roots of Unconventional Computing

By: Andrew Schumann  
Open Access
|Mar 2016

Abstract

We show that in Kabbalah, the esoteric teaching of Judaism, there were developed ideas of unconventional automata in which operations over characters of the Hebrew alphabet can simulate all real processes producing appropriate strings in accordance with some algorithms. These ideas may be used now in a syllogistic extension of Lindenmayer systems (L-systems), where we deal also with strings in the Kabbalistic-Leibnizean meaning. This extension is illustrated by the behavior of Physarum polycephalum plasmodia which can implement, first, the Aristotelian syllogistic and, second, a Talmudic syllogistic by qal wa-homer.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6059 | Journal ISSN: 0860-150X
Language: English
Page range: 181 - 201
Published on: Mar 17, 2016
Published by: University of Białystok
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Related subjects:

© 2016 Andrew Schumann, published by University of Białystok
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.