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Hutter's strong confidence in a computable universe

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fryolysis

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Mar 7, 2023, 10:50:41 AM3/7/23
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In his "A complete theory of everything" paper, he made the assumption that the universe (or multiverse) is a computable entity and he expressed a strong confidence in it. He says,"The assumption that the world has some structure is as safe as (or I think even weaker than) the assumption that e.g. classical logic is good for reasoning about the world (and the latter one has to assume to make science meaningful)."

I can't convince myself that this is indeed a weak assumption. Am I missing some justifications somewhere else in the literature? Do you have any suggested readings for me?

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