Samenvatting
The theory that all processes in the universe are computational is attractive in its promise to provide an understandable theory of everything. I want to suggest here that this pancomputationalism is not sufficiently clear on which problem it is trying to solve, and how. I propose two interpretations of pancomputationalism as a theory: I) the world is a computer and II) the world can be described as a computer. The first implies a thesis of supervenience of the physical over computation and is thus reduced ad absurdum. The second is underdetermined by the world, and thus equally unsuccessful as theory. Finally, I suggest that pancomputationalism as metaphor can be useful. – At the Paderborn workshop in 2008, this paper was presented as a commentary to the relevant paper by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic " Info-Computationalism and Philosophical Aspects of Research in Information Sciences".
Keywords
pancomputationalism computationalism info-computationalism computation realism
Keywords
pancomputationalism computationalism info-computationalism computation realism
Originele taal-2 | Engels |
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Titel | Philosophy, Computing and Information Science |
Redacteuren | Ruth Hagengruber, Uwe Riss |
Uitgeverij | Taylor and Francis Ltd. |
Pagina's | 213-222 |
Aantal pagina's | 10 |
ISBN van elektronische versie | 9781315653938 |
ISBN van geprinte versie | 9781848935082 |
DOI's | |
Status | Gepubliceerd - 6 okt. 2015 |
Extern gepubliceerd | Ja |