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# Quantum Physics

# Title: A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Authors: [Juergen Schmidhuber][32]

(Submitted on 13 Apr 1999)

> 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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|  Comments:  |  9 pages, no figures |  
|  Subjects:  |  Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Computational Complexity (cs.CC); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) |  
|  Journal reference:  |  In C. Freksa, ed., Foundations of Computer Science: Potential - Theory - Cognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 201-208, Springer, 1997 |  
|  Cite as:  |  [arXiv:quant-ph/9904050][33] |  
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