The Ontology of Digital Physics

Deanthropomorphized Pancomputationalism and the Concept of Computing

“…In its weaker version, it claims that "the physical world is isomorphic to a mathematical structure." These assumptions and their consequences have been subjected to detailed analysis [4].…”

“…Zuse's concept of computation is strongly tied to Turing's concept, making his thesis strongly anthropomorphic. A thorough analysis of Zuse's model can be found in the work of Beraldo-de-Araújo and Baravalle [4].…”

“…To clarify this problem let us look at the formal definition of computing and computer formulated by Beraldo-de-Araújio et al [4]. Computation can be formally represented by the following two definitions: Definition 1: A process is a function P: I → O such that its domain I is a set whose elements are called inputs and its co domain O is a set whose elements are called outputs, while both I and O are subsets of a physical world.…”

“…Ontic pancomputationalism (later referred to as pancomputationalism) is the notion that nature, or the universe, is a computer, and what nature does is essentially computation [4,16,[38][39][40]. There are many versions of pancomputationalism depending on how one attribute computational powers to nature-everything computes, some processes compute, or only special processes compute (see e.g.…”

“…Only digital pancomputationalism explicitly claims that the universe is the Turing machine (TM) (see e.g. [4]). But other versions of pancomputationalism (unlimited, limited, ontic, strong, weak, limited, causal to name just a few, see.…”