Ed Fredkin and the Foundations of Digital Philosophy: The Universe as Computation
How did Ed Fredkin’s Digital Philosophy shape the view of the universe as a computational system, and what are its implications for physics, computing, and artificial intelligence?
Ed Fredkin (1934-2023), deceased MIT Professor and Caltech Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, can be attributed as one of the founders of Digital Philosophy. Others include Konrad Zuse and Stephen Wolfram. It is an interdisciplinary endeavour between computer science, physics, and philosophy, fundamentally grounded on computation. Universe operates as a c…
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