ABSTRACT

The natural world computes as well and becomes overly apparent when one thinks of computation purely in terms of symmetry and change. The concept of sets is central to systems theory. Systems theory, in its broadest sense, is the interdisciplinary study of organisation within the context of a definitive system. When trying to make comparisons between the types of natural' computation found in the physical world and more synthetic variants such as those found in systems like the World Wide Web, one fact must be remembered, in that by definition, real-world computing manifests itself through physical presence and the observable change. It is a well-known fact that the majority of the Web, for instance, is constructed from long intertwined hyperlinked chains of information and process. A quantum view of such springs' might well be seen as spinning fundamental particles of information and transformation a conceptualisation not dissimilar to that favoured by scientists researching into protein folding.