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hasnt this line of philosophy been logically killed by quantum physics? Also digits are purely human concept.
by AsymetricCom 13y ago
hasnt this line of philosophy been logically killed by quantum physics? Also digits are purely human concept.
- pivnicek 13y agoI'm not sure if a digital universe would necessarily equate to a knowable universe. My main point of disagreement with the philosophy would lie in the ultimate weakness inherent to a digital explanation: the infinite points in between.
- kaoD 13y agoWhich infinite points? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length
- flumbaps 13y agoNo, not really, quantum physics could be simulated using symbolic computation. Digits are not a purely human concept. They belong to mathematics, which is something that humans uncover, not invent.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoI'm not really of persuasion that Math is the only way to understand and predict the universe. http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/04/is-mathematics.html http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/04/is-mathematics....
- marcosdumay 13y agoAren't "digital" and "quantum" two names for the same concept? (But, no, quantum physics didn't settle on the quantization of all data.)