Calculating Space

<p><i>Calculating Space</i>  is <a href="/facts/Konrad_Zuse/yrvbaEg3">Konrad Zuse</a>'s 1969 book on <a href="/facts/Automata_theory/Q6BmPv63">automata theory</a>. He proposed that all processes in the <a href="/facts/Universe/XbfpnDmM">universe</a> are computational. This view is known today as <a href="/facts/The_simulation_hypothesis/flKxTcxr">the simulation hypothesis</a>, digital philosophy, <a href="/facts/Digital_physics/IJSqcTVM">digital physics</a> or <a href="/facts/Pancomputationalism/IJSqcTVM">pancomputationalism</a>. Zuse proposed that the <a href="/facts/Universe/XbfpnDmM">universe</a> is being computed by some sort of <a href="/facts/Cellular_automaton/6gfkjKAW">cellular automaton</a> or other discrete computing machinery, challenging the long-held view that some physical laws are continuous by nature. He focused on cellular automata as a possible substrate of the computation, and pointed out that the classical notions of <a href="/facts/Entropy/s52IXeFz">entropy</a> and <a href="/facts/Second_law_of_thermodynamics/m7SJ2eeH">its growth</a> do not make sense in deterministically computed universes.
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Calculating Space