Keywords:
Physics
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Epistemology
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Philosophy and science
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Probabilities
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Physics
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History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
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Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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Epistemology
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Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
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Philosophy of Science
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I Embedded observers, reflexive perception and representation: Intrinsic and extrinsic observation mode --- Embedded observers and self-expression --- Reflexive measurement --- Intrinsic self-representation --- Part II Provable unknowns: On what is entirely hopeless --- Forecasting and unpredictability --- Induction by rule inference --- Other types of recursion theoretic unknowables --- What if there are no laws? Emergence of laws --- Part III Quantum unknowns: "Shut up and calculate" --- Evolution by permutation --- Quantum mechanics in a nutshell --- Quantum oracles --- Vacuum fluctuations --- Radioactive decay --- Part IV Exotic unknowns: Classical continua and infinities --- Classical (in)determinism --- Deterministic chaos --- Partition logics, finite automata and generalized urn models --- Part V Transcendence: Miracles --- Dualistic interfaces --- Part VI Executive summary: Executive summary --- Appendix A: Formal (in)computability and randomness --- B: Two particle correlations and expectations
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 219 pages)
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32 illustrations, 24 illustrations in color
ISBN:
9783319708157
URL:
https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-70815-7
Language:
English
