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On Accelerations in Science Driven by Daring Ideas: Good Messages from Fallibilistic Rationalism

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1. I regret that the obvious size limitations of this paper do not allow me to tell about hypercomputation as a fascinating case of information processing which is not utmcomputational. To give the taste of the problem, let me refer to Hector Zenil’s blog “Anima ex Machina”, the post: http://www.mathrix.org/liquid/category/recreation entitled “Hypercomputation in A Computable Universe”.Search in Google Scholar

2. See: Alan Turing, “Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals”, Proc. London Math. Soc., ser. 2, 45 (1939).Search in Google Scholar

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4. An extensive account of Chatin’s theory and its applications to the progress of sciences can be found in the book by Douglas S. Robertson Phase Change: The Computer Revolution in Science and Mathematics, Oxford University Press 2003. As for G. J. Chaitin’s original texts, for present purposes his Information, Randomness & Incompleteness: Papers on Algorithmic Information Theory (World Scientific, Singapore 1990) would be very useful.Search in Google Scholar

5. This term appears in most recent discussions to take advantage of the explanatory merits of the idea of information with respect to the nature of the universe. See, e.g., Hector Zenil’s polemics with Seth Lloyd in the former’s blog “Anima ex Machina”: http://www.mathrix.org/liquid/archives/tag/quantum-computer.Search in Google Scholar

6. A recent approach to the exponential growth of information is found in discussions inspired by Ray Kurzweil’s bold predictions. See, e.g., the blog discussion entitled “Why so slow” at the page http://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/why-so-slow/. Also “Big and Small” by R. D. Ekers at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1004.4279.pdf.Search in Google Scholar

7. Still in the first decades of the 20th century it was projected in the Vienna Circle to establish a logic of induction, able to grant such certainty to the natural sciences, as the logic of deduction does with respect to mathematics.Search in Google Scholar

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15. More on this subject, see chapter 25 in George Boolos’ book Logic, Logic, and Logic, Harvard University Press 1998. The proof of Gödel’s 1936 theorem is given in: Samuel R. Buss, “On Gödel’s Theorems on Lengths of Proofs I: Number of Lines and Speedups for Arithmetic”, Journal of Symbolic Logic, 39, 1994, pp. 737-756.Search in Google Scholar

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