Complexity, Entropy And The Physics Of Information, Zurek 9780367314101 New..

CRC Press

This book is an outcome of the workshop on complexity, entropy, and the physics of information held in santa Fe, New Mexico in 1989. It considers the origins and evolution of the information-processing entities and the manner in which they analyze their perceptions to form models of the Universe. > This book has emerged from a meeting held during the week of May 29 to June 2, 1989, at St. John\u2019s College in Santa Fe under the auspices of the Santa Fe Institute. The (approximately 40) official participants as well as equally numerous \u201Cgroupies\u201D were enticed to Santa Fe by the above \u201Cmanifesto.\u201D The book\u2014like the \u201CComplexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information\u201D meeting explores not only the connections between quantum and classical physics, information and its transfer, computation, and their significance for the formulation of physical theories, but it also considers the origins and evolution of the information-processing entities, their c.