About the authors .............................................. ix
1 Introduction ................................................. 1
SARA IMARI WALKER, PAUL C.W. DAVIES, AND GEORGE F.R. ELLIS
Part I Physics and Life ....................................... 17
2 The "Hard Problem" of Life .................................. 19
SARA IMARI WALKER AND PAUL C.W. DAVIES
3 Beyond Initial Conditions and Laws of Motion: Constructor
Theory of Information and Life .............................. 38
CHIARA MARLETTO
Part II Bio from Bit .......................................... 59
4 (How) Did Information Emerge? ............................... 61
ANNE-MARIE GRISOGONO
5 On the Emerging Codes for Chemical Evolution ................ 97
JULIAN E. SMITH-CARPENTER, SKA LI, JAY T. GOODWIN,
ANIL K. MEHTA, AND DAVID G. LYNN
6 Digital and Analogue Information in Organisms .............. 114
DENIS NOBLE
7 From Entropy to Information: Biased Typewriters and
the Origin of Life ......................................... 130
CHRISTOPH ADAMI AND THOMAS LABAR
Part III Life's Hidden Information ........................... 155
8 Cryptographic Nature ....................................... 157
DAVID KRAKAUER
9 Noise and Function ......................................... 174
STEVEN WEINSTEIN AND THEODORE P. PAVLIC
10 The Many Faces of State Space Compression .................. 199
DAVID WOLPERT, ERIC LIBBY, JOSHUA A. GROCHOW, AND
SIMON DEDEO
11 Causality, Information, and Biological Computation:
" An Algorithmic Software Approach to Life,
Disease, and the Immune System ............................. 244
HECTOR ZENIL, ANGELIKA SCHMIDT, AND JESPER TEGNÉR
Part IV Complexity and Causality ............................. 281
12 Life's Information Hierarchy ............................... 283
JESSICA FLACK
13 Living through Downward Causation: From Molecules
to Ecosystems .............................................. 303
KEITH D. FARNSWORTH, GEORGE F.R. ELLIS, AND LUC JAEGER
14 Automata and Animats: From Dynamics to Cause-Effect
Structures ................................................. 334
LARISSA ALBANTAKIS AND GIULIO TONONI
15 Biological Information, Causality, and Specificity:
An Intimate Relationship ................................... 366
KAROLA STOTZ AND PAUL E. GRIFFITHS
Part V From Matter to Mind ................................... 391
16 Major Transitions in Political Order 393
SIMON DEDEO
17 Bits from Brains: Analyzing Distributed Computation in
Neural Systems ............................................. 429
MICHAEL WIBRAL, JOSEPH LIZIER, AND VIOLA PRIESEMANN
18 Machine Learning and the Questions It Raises ............... 468
G. ANDREW D. BRIGGS AND DAWID POTGIETER
Index ..........................................................487
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