This lecture will focus primarily on digital physics and the limits of knowledge. In particular, a recent approach by Stephen Wolfram will be discussed, in which the problem of including the modeller provides a strong basis for a denial of the possibility of theories of everything that amount to theories of totality.
Professor Dean Rickles is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney, where he also serves as a Co-Director of the university’s interdisciplinary Centre of Time. He is visiting Bristol as a Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor and collaborating with Dr Karim Thebault in the Department of Philosophy on the project Philosophy of Digital Physics.
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