About the authors page ......................................... ix
Acknowledgments ................................................ xvi
1 Introduction: does information matter? ........................ 1
PAUL DAVIES AND NIELS HENRIK GREGERSEN
Part I History
2 From matter to materialism and (almost) back ................. 15
ERNAN MCMULLIN
3 Unsolved dilemmas: the concept of matter in the history of
philosophy and in contemporary physics ....................... 47
PHILIP CLAYTON
Part II Physics
4 Universe from bit ............................................ 83
PAUL DAVIES
5 The computational universe .................................. 118
SETH LLOYD
6 Minds and values in the quantum universe .................... 134
HENRY STAPP
Раrt III Biology
7 The concept of information in biology ....................... 157
JOHN MAYNARD SMITH
8 What is missing from theories of information? ............... 186
TERRENCE W. DEACON
9 Information and communication in living matter .............. 217
BERND-OLAF KÜPPERS
10 Semiotic freedom: an emerging force ......................... 236
JESPER HOFFMEYER
11 Care on Earth: generating informed concern .................. 261
HOLMES ROLSTON, III
Part IV Philosophy and Theology
12 The sciences of complexity: a new theological resource? ..... 315
ARTHUR РЕАСОСКЕ
13 God as the ultimate informational principle ................. 357
KEITH WARD
14 Information, theology, and the universe ..................... 382
JOHN F. HAUGHT
15 God, matter, and information: towards a Stoicizing Logos
Christology ................................................. 405
NIELS HENRIK GREGERSEN
16 What is the 'spiritual body'?: on what may be regarded as
'ultimate' in the interrelation between God, matter, and
information ................................................. 444
MICHAEL WELKER
Index .......................................................... 464
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