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physics.hist-ph2016★ 18 cited
Meaning = Information + Evolution
Carlo Rovelli
Notions like meaning, signal, intentionality, are difficult to relate to a physical word. I study a purely physical definition of "meaningful information", from which these notions…
physics.hist-ph2016★ 5 cited
The dangers of non-empirical confirmation
Carlo Rovelli
In the book "String Theory and the Scientific Method", Richard Dawid describes a few of the many non-empirical arguments that motivate theoretical physicists' confidence in a theor…