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We discuss the ideas of Leibniz on complexity and developments three centuries later. Among the topics considered: What is an appropriate mathematical framework for thinking about biology? We propose studying the evolution of mutating software. Originally presented at a Turin meeting Leibniz’s Visions Three Centuries After.
Talk presented at the Leibnizfest at the University of Turin in Italy on November 14, 2016, the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of the polymath.
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Chaitin, G.J. (2018). Building the World Out of Information and Computation: Is God a Programmer, Not a Mathematician?. In: Wuppuluri, S., Doria, F. (eds) The Map and the Territory. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72478-2_24
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