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Revision as of 19:07, 13 September 2004 by Michael Hardy (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Digital philosophy is a new movement in philosophy advocated by prominent scientists such as Edward Fredkin, Stephen Wolfram, and G. J. Chaitin. It is basically a modern re-interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics, as it substitutes the monad with digital computation. Digital physics conjectures that the universe is a special type of cellular automata that is Turing complete.
The digital approach in metaphysics promises to solve the hard problems in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of physics, since the mind can be given a computational treatment following the footsteps of Leibniz, and dispenses with the non-deterministic essentialism of (Copenhagen interpretation of) quantum theory. In a digital universe, existence is equivalent to computation, and so is thought. Thus computation is the single substance of a monist metaphysics, while subjectivity is constructed through universal computation. (This intriguing approach to epistemology has been dubbed Multism, since it posits the existence of multiple universes.)
There is a newsgroup called sci.physics.discrete and two mailing lists, namely digitalphilosophy and digitalphysics, on yahoogroups.com
-- talk about multism, algorithmic information theory, etc. --