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View SchemaA Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything
| Authors | Juergen Schmidhuber |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9904050 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9904050 |
| Journal | In C. Freksa, ed., Foundations of Computer Science: Potential - Theory - Cognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 201-208, Springer, 1997 |
Abstract
Is the universe computable? If so, it may be much cheaper in terms of information requirements to compute all computable universes instead of just ours. 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.
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