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It develops foundational arguments that connect algorithmic and quantum perspectives to the computable universe hypothesis. The discussion frames nature as self-computing, outlines the computational/informational worldview often linked to computationalism, and traces intellectual roots in ideas attributed to Wheeler and Feynman, including the concept that information underlies physical reality.","See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: [https://www. researchgate. net/publication/225098384](https://www. researchgate. net/publication/225098384)  \nIntroducing the Computable Universe  \nArticle · June 2012  \nDOI: 10. 1142/9789814374309_0001 · Source: arXiv  \nCITATIONS 14  \nREADS 831  \n1 author:  \nHector Zenil  \nOxford Immune Algorithmics 237 PUBLICATIONS 2,899 CITATIONS  \nSEE PROFILE  \nSome of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects:  \n Computability and Causality View project  \n Entropy and Complexity in Simulated Universes View project  \nAll content following this page was uploaded by Hector Zenil on 18 December 2013.  \nThe user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file.  \narXiv : 1206 .0376v 1 [ cs .IT] 2 Jun 2012  \nIntroducing the Computable Universe 􀀃  \nHector Zenil  \nDepartment of Computer Science, The University of She􀀎eld, UK; IHPST (Paris 1 Panth􀀓eon-Sorbonne/ENS Ulm/CNRS), France;  \n& Wolfram Science Group, Wolfram Research, USA.  \nAbstract  \nSome contemporary views of the universe assume information and computation to be key in understanding and explaining the basic  \nstructure underpinning physical reality. We introduce the Computable  \nUniverse exploring some of the basic arguments giving foundation to  \nthese visions. We will focus on the algorithmic and quantum aspects,  \nand how these may 􀀌t and support the computable universe hypoth  \nesis.  \n1 Understanding Computation & Exploring Nature As Computation  \nSince the days of Newton and Leibniz, scientists have been constructing elaborate views of the world. In the past century, quantum mechanics revolutionised our understanding of physical reality at atomic scales, while general relativity did the same for our understanding of reality at large scales.  \nSome contemporary world views approach objects and physical laws in terms of information and computation [25], to which they assign ultimate responsibility for the complexity in our world, including responsibility for complex mechanisms and phenomena such as life. In this view, the universe  \n􀀃 Based in the introduction to A Computable Universe, published by World Scienti􀀌c Publishing Company and the Imperial College Press, 2012 . See [http://www.mathrix.org/experimentalAIT/ComputationNature.htm](http://www.mathrix.org/experimentalAIT/ComputationNature.htm)  \nand the things in it are seen as computing themselves. Our computers do no more than re-program a part of the universe to make it compute what we want it to compute.  \nSome authors have extended the de􀀌nition of computation to physical objects and physical processes at di􀀋erent levels of physical reality, ranging from the digital to the quantum. Most of the leading thinkers involved in this e􀀋ort are contributors to A Computable Universe [26], including some who oppose the (digital) approach, preferring to advance their own.  \nThe computational/informational view (sometimes identi􀀌ed as computationalism) is rooted in pioneering thinking by authors such as John A. 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