A Computer Scientist's Perspective on Chaos and Mystery

James E. Huchingson's Pandemonium Tremendum draws on a surprisingly fruitful analogy between metaphysics and thermodynamics, with the latter motivated through the more accessible language of communication theory. In Huchingson's model, God nurtures creation by the selective communication o...

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Main Author: Kurtz, Stuart A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2002
In: Zygon
Year: 2002, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 415-420
Further subjects:B Thermodynamics
B algorithmic information theory
B finite
B James E. Huchingson
B Infinite
B Communication Theory
B Maxwell's demon
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Summary:James E. Huchingson's Pandemonium Tremendum draws on a surprisingly fruitful analogy between metaphysics and thermodynamics, with the latter motivated through the more accessible language of communication theory. In Huchingson's model, God nurtures creation by the selective communication of bits of order that arise spontaneously in chaos.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00436