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physics.comp-ph2025★ 1 cited
What does it mean for a system to compute?
David H. Wolpert, Jan Korbel
Many real-world dynamic systems, both natural and artificial, are understood to be performing computations. For artificial dynamic systems, explicitly designed to perform computati…
cs.LO2024
Implications of computer science theory for the simulation hypothesis
David H. Wolpert
The simulation hypothesis has recently excited renewed interest in the physics and philosophy communities. However, the hypothesis specifically concerns {\textit{computers}} that s…
physics.comp-ph2000
On the computational capabilities of physical systems part II: relationship with conventional computer science
David H. Wolpert
In the first of this pair of papers, it was proven that that no physical computer can correctly carry out all computational tasks that can be posed to it. The generality of this re…