Tabatabaei Ghomi, Hamed (2022) Setting the demons loose: computational irreducibility does not guarantee unpredictability or emergence. Philosophy of Science, 89. pp. 761-783.
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A phenomenon resulting from a computationally irreducible (or computationally incompressible) process is supposedly unpredictable except via simulation. This notion of unpredictability has been deployed to formulate recent accounts of computational emergence. Via a technical analysis, I show that computational irreducibility can establish the impossibility of prediction only with respect to maximum standards of precision. By articulating the graded nature of prediction, I show that unpredictability to maximum standards is not equivalent to being unpredictable in general. I conclude that computational irreducibility fails to fulfill its assigned philosophical roles in theories of computational emergence.
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| Keywords: | emergence, weak emergence, computational irreducibility, prediction, unpredictability, simulation | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Computation/Information Specific Sciences > Computer Science |
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| Depositing User: | Hamed Tabatabaei Ghomi | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2022 16:42 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 20 Nov 2022 16:42 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21450 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1017/psa.2022.5 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Computation/Information Specific Sciences > Computer Science |
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| Date: | 2022 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 761-783 | ||||||
| Volume: | 89 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21450 |
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