It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.