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Leibniz, Information, Math and Physics - Chaitin (Correct)
....this paradigm shift believe that information and computation are fundamental concepts in all three of these domains, and that what physical systems actually do is computation, i.e. information processing. In other words, as is asked on the cover of a recent issue of La Recherche with an article [20] about this, Is God a Computer But that is not quite right. Rather, we should ask, Is God a Programmer The intellectual legacy of the West, and in this connection let me recall Pythagoras, Plato, Galileo and James Jeans, states that Everything is number; God is a mathematician. We are ....
O. Postel-Vinay, "L'Univers est-il un calculateur?" [Is the universe a calculator?], La Recherche 360, Jan. 2003, pp. 33--44.
Leibniz, Information, Math and Physics - Chaitin (Correct)
....this paradigm shift believe that information and computation are fundamental concepts in all three of these domains, and that what physical systems actually do is computation, i.e. information processing. In other words, as is asked on the cover of a recent issue of La Recherche with an article [18] about this, Is God a Computer In this movement I would include: the extremely active field of quantum information and quantum computation, Wolfram s work [19] on ANewKind of Science, Fredkin s work on reversible cellular automata and his website at http: digitalphilosophy.org (the phrase ....
O. Postel-Vinay, "L'Univers est-il un calculateur?" [Is the universe a calculator?], La Recherche 360, Jan. 2003, pp. 33--44.
Two Philosophical Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory - Chaitin (Correct)
....and how the world of our experience can be partitioned into separate entities. 1. Introduction. Why is program size of philosophical interest The cover of the January 2003 issue of La Recherche asks this dramatic question: Dieu est il un ordinateur [Is God a computer ] The long cover story [1] is a reaction to Stephen Wolfram s controversial book A New Kind of Science [2] The first half of the article points out Wolfram s predecessors, and the second half criticizes Wolfram. The second half of the article begins (p. 38) with these words: Il [Wolfram] n avance aucune raison serieuse ....
O. Postel-Vinay, "L'Univers est-il un calculateur?" [Is the universe a calculator?], La Recherche, no. 360, January 2003, pp. 33--44.
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