Two philosophical applications of algorithmic information theory

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2731, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-10

  Chaitin, Gregory ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ALGORITHMIC INFORMATION THEORY; LIGHT PROGRAM;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 31444453359     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45066-1_1     Document Type: Article

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