Complexity in the Universe.
Abstract
Nontrivial "complex" or "organized" states of a physical system may be characterized as those implausible save as the results of a long causal history or evolution. This notion, formalized by the tools of the theory of universal digital computers, is compared to other notions of complexity, and an attempt is made to sketch open problems in the computation theory and statistical physics whose resolution would lead to a better fundamental understanding of "self-organization" in the universe.
- Publication:
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Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry
- Pub Date:
- 1994
- Bibcode:
- 1994pota.conf...33B
- Keywords:
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- Universe: Philosophical Aspects