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A Computer Scientist's View of
Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Is the universe computable?
If so, it may be much cheaper
in terms of information requirements
to compute all computable universes instead of
I apply basic concepts of Kolmogorov complexity
theory to the set of possible universes, and
chat about perceived and true randomness,
life, generalization, and learning in a given universe.
Post publication note:
was the first who
universe is being computed on a grid of computers or cellular
automaton (digital physics); compare similar ideas by
They did not talk about computing
all computable universes
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referring to Schmidhuber's work.
Pointers to more recent papers on the computable universes can
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