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

Juergen Schmidhuber

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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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9 pages, no figures
Journal reference
In C. Freksa, ed., Foundations of Computer Science: Potential - Theory - Cognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 201-208, Springer, 1997
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Subjects
quant-phQuantum Physics cs.CCComputational Complexity cs.CYComputers and Society physics.comp-phComputational Physics physics.pop-phPopular Physics

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