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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by gabrielgoh on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:18AM (#14094977)
Schmidhuber has forgotten to cite Leibniz. The results in this document are nothing more than a trivial corollary of the principle of metaphysical efficiency, not to mention pre-established harmony, which Leibniz has discovered the most general forms of in 1710, which encompasses not only the construction of the physical universe, but also morality. See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-evil/.
Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by jonnybgood on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:36AM (#14095320)
I always felt the philosophy of Spinoza and Leibniz would be the best candidates for the foundation of a philosophy of computer science.
Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by wu-ikkyu on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:08AM (#14097810)
Leibniz did invent binary arithmetic didn't he? And if I'm not mistaken his inspiration for it came from the I Ching, which was one of the original founding documents of ancient Chinese philosophy (i.e. yin and yang => 0 and 1).