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PIRSA:18040109

Introduction to Algorithmic Information Theory and Tutorial

APA

Hutter, M. (2018). Introduction to Algorithmic Information Theory and Tutorial. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/18040109

Marcus Hutter Australian National University

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Abstract

The progression of theories suggested for our world, from ego- to geo- to helio-centric models to universe and multiverse theories and beyond, shows one tendency: The size of the described worlds increases, with humans being expelled from their center to ever more remote and random locations. If pushed too far, a potential theory of everything (TOE) is actually more a theories of nothing (TON). Indeed such theories have already been developed. I show that including observer localization into such theories is necessary and sufficient to avoid this problem. I develop a quantitative recipe to identify TOEs and distinguish them from TONs and theories in-between. This precisely shows what the problem is with some recently suggested universal TOEs.