Emergence and Fundamentality in a Pancomputationalist Universe

被引:1
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作者
Pexton, Mark [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Durham, Durham, England
关键词
Philosophy; Pancomputationalism; Emergence; Fundamentality; COMPLEXITY; INDISPENSABILITY; MATHEMATICS; INFORMATION; WORLD;
D O I
10.1007/s11023-015-9383-9
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
The aim of this work is to apply information theoretic ideas to the notion of fundamentality. I will argue that if one adopts pancomputationalism (the idea that the world is a computer of some sort) as a metaphysics for the universe, then there are higher-level structures which are just as fundamental for computation as anything from microphysics.
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页码:301 / 320
页数:20
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