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The result was delete. JForget 14:04, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pancomputationalism[edit]

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Article title seems to be a neologism(WP:NEO). Hardly any references support the assertion that this view is called "pancomputationalism". There's an impressive list of references and external links, almost none of which support the name "pancomputationalism". Google gives very few non-wikipedia hits for the term. Moreover, the entire article is written by User:Gordanadodig, who seems to be one of the authors of a reference listed in the article, thus this might fall under WP:COI (this being pretty much the only article the user has edited on WP). Almost all the google hits on page 1 for "paninformationalism" seem to be about a talk given by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, who is possibly User:Gordanadodig. Finally, it seems to be describing the same concept as described in Digital physics. I think redirection to Digital physics might also be a reasonable alternative to deletion. Robin (talk) 21:02, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with a merge/redirect with digital physics. 1Z (talk) 09:02, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. -- - 2/0 (cont.) 01:25, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. -- - 2/0 (cont.) 01:25, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to digital physics, which this just seems to be a variant term for or slight variation on. --Cybercobra (talk) 03:04, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 23:45, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete without redirect. It is not a standard term, it seems from the article is much less well defined than digital physics, and the people listed as supporting it mostly do not do so. A redirect, which would preserve the text would be misleading., DGG ( talk ) 01:16, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, original research, plus a lot of gratuitous science & philosophy mentions. A computational theory of mind has just about zero to do with "Pancomputationalism". And I'm particularly peeved by the gratuitous, irrelevant and inaccurate mention of Naturalized Epistemology. Hairhorn (talk) 03:18, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. ArcAngel (talk) 06:07, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.