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, a '']'' magazine article on '''digitalism''', a theory that looks to ] to assume roles traditionally assigned to religion and God.]]
'''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.

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*Newsgroup: sci.physics.discrete.
*Mailing lists on yahoogroups.com: digitalphilosophy, digitalphysics
*Kelly, Kevin. 2002. Wired 10.12

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