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Digital philosophy is a new direction in philosophy and cosmology advocated by certain mathematicians and theoretical physicists, e.g., Gregory Chaitin, Edward Fredkin, Stephen Wolfram, and Konrad Zuse. It is, in essence, a modern re-interpretation of Leibniz's monist metaphysics that replaces Leibniz's monads with aspects of the theory of Cellular automata. More specifically, digital physics conjectures that the universe is a gigantic Turing-complete cellular automata.
Digital philosophy 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
- Konrad Zuse