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Digital
philosophy is a latest way in philosophy and cosmology advocated
by sure mathematicians and theoretical physicists, e.g.,
Gregory Chaitin, Edward Fredkin, Stephen Wolfram, and Konrad
Zuse (see his Calculating Space).
Digital philosophy grows out
of a previous digital physics, which proposes to ground
a great deal of material theory in cellular automata. Specifically,
digital physics works through the cost of assuming that
the creation is a gigantic Turing-complete cellular automaton.
Digital philosophy is a new
re-interpretation of Gottfried Leibniz's monist metaphysics,
one that replaces Leibniz's monads with aspects of the premise
of cellular automata. The digital approach also dispenses
with the non-deterministic essentialism of the Copenhagen
explanation of quantum theory. In a digital universe, existence
and thought would be equivalent to computation. Thus calculation
is the single substance of monist metaphysics, while subjectivity
arises from computational universality. This approach to
metaphysics has been dubbed multism since it posits the
existence of several universes
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