A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything
<|reference_start|>A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything: Is the universe computable? If so, it may be much cheaper in terms of information requirements to compute all computable universes instead of just ours. I apply basic concepts of Kolmogorov complexity theory to the set of possible universes, and chat about perceived and true randomness, life, generalization, and learning in a given universe.<|reference_end|>
@article{schmidhuber1999a,
    title={A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything},
    author={Juergen Schmidhuber},
    journal={In C. Freksa, ed., Foundations of Computer Science: Potential -
  Theory - Cognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 201-208, Springer,
  1997},
    year={1999},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={quant-ph/9904050},
    primaryClass={quant-ph cs.CC cs.CY physics.comp-ph physics.pop-ph}
}