From matter to life : information and causality

9781107150539

xxii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

The "hard problem" of life / Sara Imari Walker and Paul C.W. Davies
Beyond initial conditions and laws of motion : constructor theory of information and life / Chiara Marletto
(How) did information emerge? / Anne-Marie Grisogono
On the emerging codes for chemical evolution / Jillian E. Smith-Carpenter, Sha Li, Jay T. Goodwin, Anil K. Mehta, and David G. Lynn
Digital and analogue information in organisms/ Denis Noble
From entropy to information : biased typewriters and the origin of life / Christophe Adami and Thomas Labar
Cryptographic nature / David Krakauer
Noise and function / Steven Weinstein and Theodore P. Pavlic
The many faces of state space compression / David Wolpert, Eric Libby, Joshua A. Grochow, and Simon Dedeo
Causality, information, and biological computation : an algorithmic software approach to life, disease, and the immune system / Hector Zenil, Angelika Schmidt, and Jesper Tegnâer
Life's information hierarchy / Jessica Flack
Living through downward causation : from molecules to ecosystems / Keith D. Farnsworth, George F.R. Ellis, and Luc Jaeger
Automata and animats : from dynamics to cause-effect structures / Larissa Albantakis and Giulio Tononi
Biological information, causality, and specificity : an intimate relationship / Karola Stotz and Paul E. Griffiths
Major transitions in political order / Simon Dedeo
Bits from brains : analyzing distributed computation in neural systems / Michael Wibral, Joseph Lizier, and Viola Priesemann
Machine learning and the questions it raises / G. Andrew D. Briggs and Dawid Potgieter

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Davies, P. C. W., editor
Ellis, George F. R. (George Francis Rayner), editor
Walker, Sara Imari, editor