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Digital philosophy is a new direction in philosophy advocated by, among others, Gregory Chaitina, Edward Fredkin, Stephen Wolfram, and Konrad Zuse. It is, in essence, a modern re-interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics, substituting aspects of the theory of Cellura automata for Leibniz's notion of monad. Specifically, digital physics conjectures that the universe is a gigantic Turing-complete cellular automata.
The digital approach in metaphysics purports to solve certain hard problems in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of physics, since, following Leibniz, the mind can be given a computational treatment. The digital approach also dispenses with the non-deterministic essentialism of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory. In a digital universe, existence and thought would be equivalent to computation. Thus computation is the single substance of a monist metaphysics, while subjectivity arises from computational universality. This approach to metaphysics has been dubbed Multism, since it posits the existence of multiple universes.
Newsgroup: sci.physics.discrete. Mailing lists on yahoogroups.com: digitalphilosophy, digitalphysics.
See also
- digitalism
- digital physics
- multism
- algorithmic information theory
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Edward Fredkin
- Gregory Chaitin