About MRU
Meta-computing
Computing allows people to solve problems of all sorts, obtaining a series of numerical results often organized in an human-readable output format.
MRU believes that computation, such as the one made at very high speed by a computer, has metaphorical properties. In fact, computing may act upon our surrounding environment while solving tasks in the local execution environment.
A linguistic metaphor defines new concepts by deriving a set of meanings from a source context, thus obtaining the new semantic strength, which is immediately used by the speaker to support her own point or agument.
In the same way, a CPU clock cycle in a modern microprocessor executes many computing operations, which draw meaning from reference ideas like "filling memory", "cleaning an instruction pipeline", "refreshing cache content". These operations require work, from electric to logical layers, which has a metacomputational effect.
See the Colono project page for a sample application of metacomputing.