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View SchemaPhysical unknowables
| Authors | Karl Svozil |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0701163 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0701163 |
| Journal | in "Kurt G\"odel and the Foundations of Mathematics," ed. by Matthias Baaz, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Hilary W. Putnam, Dana S. Scott and Charles L. Harper (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011), pp. 213-251 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
A variety of physical unknowables are discussed. Provable lack of physical omniscience, omnipredictability and omnipotence is derived by reduction to problems which are known to be recursively unsolvable. "Chaotic" symbolic dynamical systems are unstable with respect to variations of initial states. Quantum unknowables include the random occurrence of single events, complementarity and value indefiniteness.
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