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
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