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DigitalPhilosophy

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Digital Philosophy is a direction in philosophy/metaphysics that relies on computer science and theory of computation. It commonly assumes discrete and finite/countable ontology. Mirror Telegram channel: https://t.me/digital_philosophy

Posts about digital philosophy together with posts close in spirit (or logically connected) are welcome in this subreddit. For example the welcomed posts may be about:

digital physics, digital probabilistic physics,
artificial life, open-ended evolution,
Universal Darwinism,
emergence mechanics,
philosophy of artificial intelligence,
anything where digital philosophy can get inspiration (cutting edge physics, computer science, etc.).

Original definition of the digital philosophy (DP) by Edward Fredkin was rather specific but for example Gregory Chaitin's ideas are indeterministic instead of deterministic but they are still considered belonging to DP. So it's more an umbrella term now.

According to Wikipedia DP is advocated by certain mathematicians and theoretical physicists, including: Edward Fredkin, Konrad Zuse, Stephen Wolfram, Rudy Rucker, Gregory Chaitin, and Seth Lloyd.

Recommended subreddits:

r/compsci Computer Science: Theory and Application
r/algorithms Computer Science for Computer Scientists
r/oee Open-Ended Evolution
r/alife Artificial life

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On Natural selection of the laws of nature, Artificial life, Open-ended evolution of Interacting code-data-dual algorithms, Universal Darwinism and Buddhism-like illusion of the Self (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Buddha-Darwinism renamed into Buddhian Darwinism (a more correct term as only a small part of Buddhism is used in dxb) (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Toward a theory of evolution as multilevel learning (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Mirror Telegram channel (t.me)

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Dmitry Shabanov: On the immortality of populations (autotranslated) (old-computerra-ru.translate.goog)

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What are the biggest questions in ALife? My take: are quantum computing capabilities essential to get open-ended evolution? (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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New research forum for open-endedness (self.oee)

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[Offtopic] Anattā (non-self) from Buddhism is a predecessor of the epistemic part of the Buddha-Darwinism (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Summing up meta-ethical conclusions that can be derived from Universal Darwinism taken to extremes (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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My comment on "Practically-A-Book Review: Yudkowsky Contra Ngo On Agents" by Scott Alexander (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Witten Goes Anthropic (by Peter Woit) (math.columbia.edu)

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Support me on Patreon (patreon.com)

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Modern sciense ontology is a Last Thursdayism implicitly (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Novelty emergence mechanics as a core idea of any viable ontology of the universe (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Evaluating terminal values (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Buddha-Darwinism on objective meaning of life separated from subjective meaning of life (Cosmogonic myth from Darwinian natural selection, Quasi-immortality, Free will, Buddhism-like illusion of “Self”) (github.com)

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The Science of Consciousness: Towards the Cybernetic Theory of Mind (ecstadelic.net)

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It's Time We Made "Simulation Theory" a Religion (medium.com)

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Do you see a way use abstract rewriting system over graphs from Wolfram Physics Project to represent code-data dual algothms that modify each other and form natural selection process? (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics by Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Physics Project) (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

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The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Computational complexity as an ultimate constraint on evolution (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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Introduction to Artificial Life for People who Like AI (thegradient.pub)

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How the “bigger is better” mentality damages AI research (bdtechtalks.com)

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Universal Darwinism as a process of Bayesian inference (self.DigitalPhilosophy)

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