Randomness, Information Theory, and the Unknowable

Mind Matters

Dec 30 2021 | 02:16:26

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Show Notes

In the 1960s, mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin published a landmark paper in the field of algorithmic information theory in the Journal of the ACM – and he was only a teenager. Since then he’s explored mathematics, computer science, and even gotten a mathematical constant named after him. Robert J. Marks leads the discussion with Professor Gregory Chaitin on algorithmic information theory, randomness, unknowability, and philosophy in this bingecast. Show Notes Additional Resources

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