Physical (a)causality : determinism, randomness and uncaused events /: determinism, randomness and uncaused events. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Karl Svozil.
• Authors: Svozil, Karl
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : SpringerOpen
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 530.01; Causality (Physics); Random dynamical systems; Causality (Physics); Random dynamical systems; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319708157; 3319708155
• Related ISBNs: 9783319708140
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 19, 2018).
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