Gregory Chaitin Lecture Mälardalen University 2005 Pt 1

Västerås, Sweden, 2005, Alan Turing Lecture on Computing and Philosophy
European Computing and Philosophy Conference, Mälardalen University.

Epistemology as Information Theory: From Leibniz to O
G. Chaitin, IBM Research
Alan Turing Lecture on Computing and Philosophy, E-CAP'05, European Computing and Philosophy Conference, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, June 2005.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin

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[pont660]

For entire playlist of lecture:

http://www.youtube.com/view_pl­ay_list?p=6A6833CBFA87B5C8

[gadionson1]

amazing video

[plmqas]

there's agreement that quantum computers arent more powerful models of computition then turing machine - remember that !

[NathanSHopkins]

@MortalAndKnowingIt - You may want to catch up on your philosophy since, oh, 1960. Positivism is dead, killed from within by people like Hempel and Quine. Only on youtube do you find someone mocking Gregory Chaitin, who is a genius, by referencing something as stupid as logical positivism.

If you paid any attention, you would notice he said he was creating a myth, or a speculative metaphysics.

Commenting on stupid sh** said on youtube would be a full time job, so I never do... but seriously?

[Entertainmentwf]

I'm confused of what you think is B.S. in this lecture... considering he's talking greatly about topics involving the core and foundations of Computer Science...

He's just exploring topics and applications around Turing Machines and his research. Considering Turing Machines are theoretical devices us Computer Scientists use in Computability Theory.

These are just new/partially older but, revisited ideas he's throwing out there (aka the philosophical portion of the lecture).

[MortalAndKnowingIt]

speculative metaphysics has been refuted and proved invalid almost a hundred years ago, and this man should've known that .... furthermore, there are more rational and measurable disciplines which can explain the question of being, and essence and their derivatives. and even furthermore speculative metaphysics does not exist, nor it is accepted anywhere. the essence of metaphysics IS speculation which was proved by Veina Circle logicians and later by Wittgenstein ... this lecture is BS ...

[lekkereoma]

irrational numbers are a subset of real numbers

[ArgSvenne]

Detta är ju helt fantastiskt??! Vad faaan vill du med detta klipp egentligen?? Vad fan vill du med detta dåå? Du verkar faaan inte klok?

[Cietru]

erm real numbers are not necessarily infinite, only the irrational numbers are right?

[AlexanderKeiths17]

Thanks for all of these. Great lecture, had trouble following at points but I got the general ideas. :D