Rudy Rucker — American Scientist born on March 22, 1946,

Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and philosopher, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which both won Philip K. Dick Awards. Until its closure in 2014 he edited the science fiction webzine Flurb... (wikipedia)

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.