The Universe as Automaton
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-23476-7 (ISBN)
This Brief is an essay at the interface of philosophy and complexity research, trying to inspire the reader with new ideas and new conceptual developments of cellular automata. Going beyond the numerical experiments of Steven Wolfram, it is argued that cellular automata must be considered complex dynamical systems in their own right, requiring appropriate analytical models in order to find precise answers and predictions in the universe of cellular automata.
Indeed, eventually we have to ask whether cellular automata can be considered models of the real world and, conversely, whether there are limits to our modern approach of attributing the world, and the universe for that matter, essentially a digital reality.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Mainzer, geboren 1947, hat einen Lehrstuhl für Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie inne und ist Direktor des Instituts für Interdisziplinäre Informatik an der Universität Augsburg. Zahlreiche Fachpublikationen.
Introduction: Leibniz,Turing Zuse, and Beyond.- Simplicity in the Unviverse of Cellular Automata.- Complexity in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Symmetry in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Attractors in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Time in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Matter in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Life and Brain in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Outlook: Is the Universe a Computer?.
From the reviews:
"This book contains a great deal of some central topics and actual problems of cellular automata theory. It is an introduction which emphasizes the mathematically interesting and beauty aspects of cellular automata and complex dynamical systems as well as their synthesis on an ambitious level suitable for graduate students and researchers. ... To understand the complex computational world, the authors stress that cellular automata are an excellent instructional tool." (Hasan Akin, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1237, 2012)| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.10.2011 |
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| Reihe/Serie | SpringerBriefs in Complexity |
| Zusatzinfo | VIII, 108 p. 30 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 196 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik | |
| Schlagworte | Cellular Automata brief overview • Cellular Automaton • Church-turing thesis • Complexity • Philosophy of complex systems • Universe as a computer |
| ISBN-10 | 3-642-23476-3 / 3642234763 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-642-23476-7 / 9783642234767 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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