Gödel, Escher, Bach - Lecture 4: Part 8 of 12

During the summer of 2007, Gödel, Escher, Bach was recorded for OpenCourseWare.

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[with9isavailable]

@antfilfon1 What makes you so sure the universe isn't itself deterministic?

[antfilfon1]

There is a huge mistake from the programmer on this piece. Cellular automata are finite and deterministic so they always present a cyclic behaviour. The ‘isomorphism’ with the functioning of the Universe is no more than folk science.