Sauce: https://xkcd.com/505/
I love it when he makes comics like these. Exploring deep philosophical concepts, for a punchline
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Yeah they're pretty good. Have you seen his "what if" stuff?
I own both in hard cover!
This is beautiful, I think I recognize the cellular automaton he built with the rocks, it might be rule 110 or an equivalent one.
"I call Rule 34 on Wolfram's Rule 34."
It should be a Rule to include the hover text.
This is what hell looks like
I guess this is not the point of the comic but would this "thinking and deducting math" be a solution to not go insane from brain atrophy during solitary confinement?
Theoretically, with enough random debris you could do lambda calculus, so by extension you could create fully functional programs to entertain yourself.