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Against digital ontology.

The paper argues that digital ontology (the ultimate nature of reality is digital, and the universe is a computational system equivalent to a Turing Machine) should be carefully distinguished from informational ontology (the ultimate nature of reality is structural), in order to abandon the former a...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 168; no. 1; pp. 151 - 179
Main Author: Floridi, Luciano
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature May2009
Subjects:
Ontology
Turing machines
Computer systems
Boolean algebra
Binary principle (Linguistics)
Epistemics
Realism
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