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Digital physics

Digital physics is a family of speculative proposals in philosophy, holding that the universe is at its most fundamental level digital, informational or computational in character: that physical reality is either the output of a computer program or is itself a computational process. This metaphysical position is also known as pancomputationalism.

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Digital physics

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related to Further reading · 31
Digital physics → Anderson, April, Arsiwalla, Baravalle, Beraldo-de-Araújo, Computable Universe, Computation, Dean, Did, Elshatlawy, Erkenntnis, Exploring Nature, Hatem, Hector, Information, ISBN, London, Lorenzo, Pregeometry, Quantum Gravity
related to Information Mechanics at MIT · 14
Digital physics → Billiard-ball, Computation, Computer Science, Edward Fredkin, Fredkin, Margolus, MIT, MIT's Laboratory, Physics, Richard Feynman's, The, Their, This, Toffoli
related to Bell's theorem · 7
Digital physics → Bell, Bell's, Deterministic, Hooft's, Hossenfelder, Palmer, Proponents
related to 1980s and the informational turn · 6
Digital physics → Church-Turing-Deutsch, David Deutsch, Deutsch's, His, Stephen Wolfram, Wheeler
related to Reception · 4
Digital physics → Defenders, Digital, Discreteness, Sceptics
related to Implications · 2
Digital physics → Participants, These
related to Simulation-based versions · 2
Digital physics → Conflation, Nick Bostrom's
is a · 1
Digital physics → family of speculative proposals in philosophy
related to Proposed empirical tests · 1
Digital physics → Digital

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physics quantum physical digital universe discrete information computational theory classical computation rather models space fundamental continuum automaton cellular objection lattice

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Digital physicsis afamily of speculative proposals in philosophy0.90text
a cellular automaton cannot efficiently reproduce quantum correlationsinstance ofRichard Feynman's contribution argued that a classical local system0.80text
and proposed quantum simulators insteadinstance ofRichard Feynman's contribution argued that a classical local system0.80text
Digital physicsrelated to 1980s and the informational turnDavid Deutsch0.60section
Digital physicsrelated to 1980s and the informational turnChurch-Turing-Deutsch0.60section
Digital physicsrelated to 1980s and the informational turnDeutsch's0.60section
Digital physicsrelated to 1980s and the informational turnStephen Wolfram0.60section
Digital physicsrelated to 1980s and the informational turnWheeler0.60section
Digital physicsrelated to 1980s and the informational turnHis0.60section
Digital physicsrelated to Bell's theoremDeterministic0.60section
Digital physicsrelated to Bell's theoremBell's0.60section
Digital physicsrelated to Bell's theoremBell0.60section

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