COLLOQUIUM: Leibniz on Complexity (March 2016)

Speaker: Gregory Chaitin, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Abstract: 2016 is the tercentenary of the death of the remarkable philosopher/mathematician Leibniz. In this talk we shall present an appreciation of his work on information, computation and complexity leading up to modern work on algorithmic information and conceptual complexity, with applications in epistemological critiques of physics, mathematics and biology.

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The Omega number is incredibly interesting. Gregory is a genius! 💡 I love his brain.

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Interesting talk.

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life is a mathematical model...evolution chooses models

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I have a project I’m working on: Leibniz was a “closet astrologer”. Fact: he was a fan of a 17th book, Astronomicon. His monodology is eerily similar to the revelations of working with astrology. I. E. The ideas of microcosm/macrocosm. And that God is running “the whole program”, so to speak. Now, here the speaker discusses how a theory must be more compressed than the output of “experimental data”. This also reflects how astrology uses a limited set of symbols to generate infinite “lawful” complexity. Why, simply put, the ongoing patterns of the solar system.