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

@article{citeulike:4232988, 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.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Schmidhuber, Juergen}, citeulike-article-id = {4232988}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9904050}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9904050}, comment = {Schmidhuber's notion of the computational universe spelled out in some detail}, eprint = {quant-ph/9904050}, keywords = {computational-universe, foundations, schmidhuber}, month = {Apr}, posted-at = {2009-03-27 17:03:11}, priority = {5}, title = {A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9904050}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4232988 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4232988 N2 - 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. TI - A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything KW - computational-universe KW - foundations KW - schmidhuber N1 - Schmidhuber's notion of the computational universe spelled out in some detail AU - Schmidhuber, Juergen PY - 1999/Apr/13/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9904050 ER -