From matter to life information and causality - Walker, Sara Imari; Davies, P. C. W.; Ellis, George F. R. (Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press, 2017)
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 Potgie
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Life -- Origin; Consciousness -- Physiological aspects; Biochemistry