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[quant-ph/9904050] A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Title: A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything
Authors: Juergen Schmidhuber
(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 |
| | (or arXiv:quant-ph/9904050v1 for this version) |
Submission history
From: Juergen Schmidhuber [view email]
[v1] Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:36:03 GMT (10kb)
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