Tabatabaei Ghomi, Hamed (2021) Setting the demons loose: computational irreducibility does not guarantee unpredictability or emergence. [Preprint]
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Abstract
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 some recent accounts of computational emergence. Via a technical analysis of computational irreducibility, I show that computationally 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: | 25 Nov 2021 21:49 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2021 21:49 | ||||||
Item ID: | 19923 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Computation/Information Specific Sciences > Computer Science |
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Date: | 2021 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19923 |
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