Emergence and Fundamentality in a Pancomputationalist Universe

Minds and Machines 25 (4):301-320 (2015)
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The aim of this work is to apply information theoretic ideas to the notion of fundamentality. I will argue that if one adopts pancomputationalism as a metaphysics for the universe, then there are higher-level structures which are just as fundamental for computation as anything from microphysics.

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