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Wojciech H. Zurek, editor. Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information. Addison Wesley. 1990

 

The papers are gathered under the following headings: • Physics of Information • Laws of Physics and Laws of Computation • Complexity and Evolution • Physics of Computation • Probability, Entropy, and Quantum • Physics of Information • Quantum Theory and Measurement

Contents

Wojciech H. Zurek.
Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information---a Manifesto
John Archibald Wheeler.
Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links. 1989
Benjamin Schumacher.
Information from Quantum Measurements
William K. Wootters.
Local Accessibility of Quantum States
V. F. Mukhanov.
The Entropy of Black Holes
Shin Takagi.
Some Simple Consequences of the Loss of Information in a Spacetime with a Horizon
Paul C. W. Davies.
Why is the Physical World so Comprehensible?
Wojciech H. Zurek.
Algorithmic Information Content, Church-Turing Thesis, Physical Entropy, and Maxwell's Demon
Carlton M. Caves.
Entropy and Information: How Much Information is Needed to Assign a Probability?
J. Rissanen.
Complexity of Models
C. H. Woo.
Laws and Boundary Conditions
Charles H. Bennett.
How to define complexity in physics, and why. 1990
Stuart A. Kauffman.
Requirements for Evolvability in Complex Systems: Orderly Dynamics and Frozen Components. 1990
Seth Lloyd.
Valuable Information
Dilip K. Kondepudi.
Non-Equilibrium Polymers, Entropy, and Algorithmic Information
Tad Hogg.
The Dynamics of Complex Computational Systems
James P. Crutchfield, Karl Young.
Computation at the Onset of Chaos
Norman H. Margolus.
Parallel quantum computation
W. G. Teich, G. Mahler.
Information Processing at the Molecular Level: Possible Realizations and Physical Constraints
Tommaso Toffoli.
How Cheap Can Mechanics' First Principles Be?
Xiao-Jing Wang.
Intermittent Fluctuations and Complexity
A. Zee.
Information Processing in Visual Perception
Asher Peres.
Thermodynamic Constraints on Quantum Axioms
M. Hossein Partovi.
Entropy and Quantum Mechanics
Otto E. Rossler.
Einstein Completion of Quantum Mechanics Made Falsifiable
J. W. Barrett.
Quantum Mechanics and Algorithmic Complexity
E. T. Jaynes.
Probability in Quantum Theory
H. Dieter Zeh.
Quantum Measurements and Entropy
Murray Gell-Mann, James B. Hartle.
Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Quantum Cosmology
Jonathan J. Halliwell.
Information Dissipation in Quantum Cosmology and the Emergence of Classical Spacetime
David Z. Albert.
The Quantum Mechanics of Self-Measurement
L. A. Khalfin.
The Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Light of Classical Bell's and Quantum Tsirelson's Inequalities
Roland Omnes.
Some Progress in Measurement Theory: The Logical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics