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arXiv:2109.08523 (cs)
[Submitted on 15 Sep 2021]

Title:A Computable Piece of Uncomputable Art whose Expansion May Explain the Universe in Software Space

Authors:Hector Zenil
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Abstract:At the intersection of what I call uncomputable art and computational epistemology, a form of experimental philosophy, we find an exciting and promising area of science related to causation with an alternative, possibly best possible, solution to the challenge of the inverse problem. That is the problem of finding the possible causes, mechanistic origins, first principles, and generative models of a piece of data from a physical phenomenon. Here we explain how generating and exploring software space following the framework of Algorithmic Information Dynamics, it is possible to find small models and learn to navigate a sci-fi-looking space that can advance the field of scientific discovery with complementary tools to offer an opportunity to advance science itself.
Comments: 20 pages. Invited contribution. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1904.10258, arXiv:1401.3613
Subjects: Other Computer Science (cs.OH); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Theory (cs.IT)
Cite as: arXiv:2109.08523 [cs.OH]
  (or arXiv:2109.08523v1 [cs.OH] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2109.08523

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From: Hector Zenil [view email]
[v1] Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:44:40 UTC (3,230 KB)
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