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1 online resource (545 pages) |
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Santa Fe Institute ; v. Vol. 8 |
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Santa Fe Institute
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; Table of Contents; I: Physics of information; Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links; Information from Quantum Measurements; Local Accessibility of Quantum States; The Entropy of Black Holes; Some Simple Consequences of the Loss of Information in a Spacetime with a Horizon; Why is the Physical World so Comprehensible?; II: Laws of Physics and Laws of Computation; Algorithmic Information Content, Church-Turing Thesis, Physical Entropy, and Maxwellâ#x80;#x99;s Demon |
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Entropy and Information: How Much Information is Needed to Assign a Probability?Complexity of Models; Laws and Boundary Conditions; How to Define Complexity in Physics, and Why; III: Complexity and Evolution; Requirements for Evolvability in Complex Systems: Orderly Dynamics and Frozen Components; Valuable Information; Non-Equilibrium Polymers, Entropy, and Algorithmic Information; The Dynamics of Complex Computational Systems; Computation at the Onset of Chaos; IV: Physics of Computation; Parallel Quantum Computation |
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Information Processing at the Molecular Level: Possible Realizations and Physical ConstraintsHow Cheap Can Mechanicsâ#x80;#x99; First Principles Be?; Intermittent Fluctuations and Complexity; Information Processing in Visual Perception; V: Probability, Entropy, and Quantum; Thermodynamic Constraints on Quantum Axioms; Entropy and Quantum Mechanics; Einstein Completion of Quantum Mechanics Made Falsifiable; Quantum Mechanics and Algorithmic Complexity; Probability in Quantum Theory; Quantum Measurements and Entropy; VI: Quantum Theory and Measurement |
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Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Quantum CosmologyInformation Dissipation in Quantum Cosmology and the Emergence of Classical Spacetime; The Quantum Mechanics of Self-Measurement; The Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Light of Classical Bellâ#x80;#x99;s and Quantum Tsirelsonâ#x80;#x99;s Inequalities; Some Progress in Measurement Theory: The Logical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics; Indices |
| Summary |
A must have for those with a deep commitment to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, and information theory |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Physical measurements -- Congresses
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Computational complexity -- Congresses
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Entropy -- Congresses
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Quantum theory -- Congresses
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Science -- Energy
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Science -- Mechanics -- General
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Science -- Physics -- General
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Computational complexity.
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Entropy.
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Physical measurements.
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Quantum theory.
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Complexiteit
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Entropie
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Kwantummechanica
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Quantum Theory
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entropy.
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Computational complexity
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Entropy
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Physical measurements
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Quantum theory
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429982514 |
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0429982518 |
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