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}, day = {13}, eprint = {quant-ph/9904050}, keywords = {algorithmic-information-theory, all-computable-universes, all-possible-cosmological-theories, all-possible-universes, all-possible-worlds, cantor-space, complexities, computational-complexity-theory, computational-cosmology, cosmological-models, cosmological-theories, hierarchy-of-abstract-machines, representations, toes, universal-models, universal-theories, universes}, month = {Apr}, posted-at = {2009-06-17 22:43:59}, priority = {2}, 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 - algorithmic-information-theory KW - all-computable-universes KW - all-possible-cosmological-theories KW - all-possible-universes KW - all-possible-worlds KW - cantor-space KW - complexities KW - computational-complexity-theory KW - computational-cosmology KW - cosmological-models KW - cosmological-theories KW - hierarchy-of-abstract-machines KW - representations KW - toes KW - universal-models KW - universal-theories KW - universes AU - Schmidhuber, Juergen PY - 1999/Apr/13/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9904050 ER -