Calculating Space

An elementary process in Zuse's Calculating Space: Two digital particles A and B form a new digital particle C.<ref name="Zuse_1967_RR"/>

Calculating Space (Template:Langx) is Konrad Zuse's 1969 book on automata theory. He proposed that all processes in the universe are computational.<ref name="Mainzer-Chua_2011"/> This view is known today as the simulation hypothesis, digital philosophy, digital physics or pancomputationalism.<ref name="Müller_2014"/> Zuse proposed that the universe is being computed by some sort of cellular automaton or other discrete computing machinery,<ref name="Mainzer-Chua_2011"/> challenging the long-held view that some physical laws are continuous by nature. He focused on cellular automata as a possible substrate of the computation and pointed out that the classical notions of entropy and its growth do not make sense in deterministically computed universes.

See also

• A New Kind of Science
• Simulated reality

Further reading

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External links

• Jürgen Schmidhuber's site Zuse's book and 1967 paper.
• Calculating Space - a painting by Zuse - Konrad Zuse's visualization of the idea
• Web article and simulation of such a calculating space in C and LIBPNG
• SecondSpace Simulation of waves within a 2D space (time and space are discrete), similar to FDTD. An OpenCL graphic card is needed.