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Physical (A)Causality: determinism, randomness and uncaused events

By Karl , Svozil

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2018
ISBN
978-3-319-70814-0, 3319708147, 978-3-319-70815-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1949608 bytes)
Series
Fundamental Theories of Physics 192
Pages
219\215
Topic
Physics
Library
kolxo3
Time added
2019-04-25 18:00:00
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Description

Content: Part I Embedded observers, reflexive perception and representation: Intrinsic and extrinsic observation mode.- Embedded observers and self-expression.- Reflexive measurement.- Intrinsic self-representation.- Part II Provable unknowns: On what is entirely hopeless.- Forecasting and unpredictability.- Induction by rule inference.- Other types of recursion theoretic unknowables.- What if there are no laws? Emergence of laws.- Part III Quantum unknowns: "Shut up and calculate".- Evolution by permutation.- Quantum mechanics in a nutshell.- Quantum oracles.- Vacuum fluctuations.- Radioactive decay.- Part IV Exotic unknowns: Classical continua and infinities.- Classical (in)determinism.- Deterministic chaos.- Partition logics, finite automata and generalized urn models.- Part V Transcendence: Miracles.- Dualistic interfaces.- Part VI Executive summary: Executive summary.- Appendix A: Formal (in)computability and randomness.- B: Two particle correlations and expectations.

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