Hempel's dilemma and the physics of computation

Details Hempel's dilemma and the physics of computation Hempel's dilemma and the physics of computation

2007-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702072v1

in: Knowledge in Ferment: Dilemmas in Science, Scholarship and Society (Leiden University Press, 2007)

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

5 pages

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Carl Gustav Hempel (1905-1997) formulated the dilemma that carries his name in an attempt to determine the boundaries of physics. Where does physics go over into metaphysics? The purpose of this contribution is to indicate how a recently developed field of research, the physics of computation, might offer a new answer to that old question: The boundary between physics and metaphysics is the boundary between what can and what cannot be computed in the age of the universe.

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