Information and the nature of reality: from physics to metaphysics / ed. by P.Davies, N.H.Gregersen. - Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (2011). - xvi, 382 p.: ill. - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind.: p.365-382. - ISBN 978-0-521-76225-0  Место хранения:   035 | Объединенный институт истории, филологии и философии СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

About the authors ............................................ ix Acknowledgments .............................................. xv 1 Introduction: does information matter? ........................ 1 PAUL DAVIES AND NIELS HENRIK GREGERSEN Part I History ................................................. 11 2 From matter to materialism ... and (almost) back ............. 13 ERNAN MCMULLIN 3 Unsolved dilemmas: the concept of matter in the history of philosophy and in contemporary physics ....................... 38 PHILIP CLAYTON Part II Physics ................................................. 63 4 Universe from bit ............................................ 65 PAUL DAVIES 5 The computational universe ................................... 92 SETH LLOYD 6 Minds and values in the quantum universe .................... 104 HENRY STAPP Part III Biology ............................................... 121 7 The concept of information in biology ....................... 123 JOHN MAYNARD SMITH 8 What is missing from theories of information? ............... 146 TERRENCE W. DEACON 9 Information and communication in living matter .............. 170 BERND-OLAF KÜPPERS 10 Semiotic freedom: an emerging force ......................... 185 JESPER HOFFMEYER 11 Care on Earth: generating informed concern .................. 205 HOLMES ROLSTON, III Part IV Philosophy and Theology ............................... 247 12 The sciences of complexity: a new theological resource? ..... 249 ARTHUR PEACOCKE 13 God as the ultimate informational principle ................. 282 KEITH WARD 14 Information, theology, and the universe ..................... 301 JOHN F. HAUGHT 15 God, matter, and information: towards a Stoicizing Logos Christology ................................................. 319 NIELS HENRIK GREGERSEN 16 What is the 'spiritual body'? On what may be regarded as 'ultimate' in the interrelation between God, matter, and information ................................................. 349 MICHAEL WELKER Index .......................................................... 365