By the same argument, it's mathematics because John Conway was a mathematician, and it's physics because Ulam and Von Neumann were physicists.

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mathgradthrow 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Von Neumann was a mathematician, thank you very much.

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psychoslave 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Come on, everybody knows it's philosophers all the way down. It's even in the title: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_All_the_Way_Down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

https://xefer.com/2011/05/wikipedia

https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-2013/projects2013/cs2...

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KineticLensman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Actually, the bottom layer from which God created the cosmos was originally Computer Science. Where else do you think all the chaos came from?

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gnfargbl 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And that's my point; it's okay to create new names for sub-disciplines, as Wolfram is doing here. Because that's what we have been doing since the days of Aristotle.

	▲	ontouchstart 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Aristotle is the founder of biology: https://youtu.be/kz7DfbOuvOM

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JadeNB 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've never understood why we first become masters of science only to become doctors of philosophy ....

	▲	MarkusQ 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because Philosophy need serious medical attention?

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ontouchstart 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

These are computer scientists:

https://youtu.be/wQbFkAkThGk