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Computable Universe, A: Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation

Computable Universe, A: Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation

Zenil, Hector

Hardcover

General ComputersGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 9814374296
ISBN13: 9789814374293
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: Dec 21 2012
Pages: 856
Weight: 2.95
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This volume, with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, discusses the foundations of computation in relation to nature.It focuses on two main questions: The contributors are world-renowned experts who have helped shape a cutting-edge computational understanding of the universe. They discuss computation in the world from a variety of perspectives, ranging from foundational concepts to pragmatic models to ontological conceptions and philosophical implications.The volume provides a state-of-the-art collection of technical papers and non-technical essays, representing a field that assumes information and computation to be key in understanding and explaining the basic structure underpinning physical reality. It also includes a new edition of Konrad Zuse's Calculating Space (the MIT translation), and a panel discussion transcription on the topic, featuring worldwide experts in quantum mechanics, physics, cognition, computation and algorithmic complexity.The volume is dedicated to the memory of Alan M Turing -- the inventor of universal computation, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, and is part of the Turing Centenary celebrations.

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