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| '''Digital philosophy''' is a new direction in ] and ] advocated by certain mathematicians and theoretical physicists, e.g., ], ], ], and ] (see his '']''). | |||
| Digital philosophy grew out of an earlier ] (both terms are due to Fredkin), which proposes to ground much of physical theory in ]. Specifically, digital physics works through the consequences of assuming that the universe is a gigantic ] ]. | |||
| Digital philosophy is a modern re-interpretation of ]'s ] ], one that replaces Leibniz's monads with aspects of the theory of ]. Digital philosophy purports to solve certain hard problems in the ] and the ], since, following Leibniz, the mind can be given a ]al treatment. The digital approach also dispenses with the non-deterministic essentialism of the ] of ]. In a digital universe, existence and thought would be equivalent to computation. Thus computation is the single substance of a ] metaphysics, while subjectivity arises from computational ]. This approach to ] has been dubbed ] since it posits the existence of multiple universes. | |||
| ==See also== | |||
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| * '']'' | |||
| ==External links== | |||
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| *]'s site "." | |||
| *Newsgroup: sci.physics.discrete. | |||
| *Mailing lists on yahoogroups.com: digitalphilosophy, digitalphysics | |||
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