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Greg Chaitin has lots of lectures about this up on youtube http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=greg+chaitin

He is a very watchable speaker. There's an amusing moment in one of them where he talks about getting high on hyperoperators. I wish I could remember which one it was.

Among other things he tries to convince you that real numbers are a figment of our imagination, an obvious consequence of digital physics, but still quite startling. He has decent arguments.



is there any one particular lecture you recommend? i don't have time to sift thru the large number of results from that search to find the gems.


The one at lisbon and the one at Mälardalen university are good. They're all good as far as I can tell.




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