LEADER 04240nam 22006375 450 001 9910741166003321 005 20200703133530.0 010 $a3-319-43760-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-43760-6 035 $a(CKB)4340000000024369 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-43760-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4768858 035 $a(PPN)197455670 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000024369 100 $a20161210d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInformation and Interaction $eEddington, Wheeler, and the Limits of Knowledge /$fedited by Ian T. Durham, Dean Rickles 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XXIII, 212 p. 22 illus., 11 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aThe Frontiers Collection,$x1612-3018 311 $a3-319-43758-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aBoundaries of Scientific Thought (I. Durham) -- Eddington?s Limits of Knowledge: The Role of Religion (M. Stanley) -- Eddington's Dream: A Failed Theory of Everything (H. Kragh) -- All Possible Perspectives: A (Partial) Defence of Eddington's Physics (D. Rickles) -- Tracing the Arrows of Time (F. Weinert) -- Constructor Theory of Information (C. Marletto) -- On Participatory Realism (C. A. Fuchs) -- Toward Physical Realizations of Thermodynamic Resource Theories (N. Y. Halpern) -- Merging Contradictory Laws: Imagining a Contructive Derivation of Quantum Theory (W. K. Wootters) -- Understanding the Electron (K. H. Knuth). 330 $aIn this essay collection, leading physicists, philosophers, and historians attempt to fill the empty theoretical ground in the foundations of information and address the related question of the limits to our knowledge of the world. Over recent decades, our practical approach to information and its exploitation has radically outpaced our theoretical understanding - to such a degree that reflection on the foundations may seem futile. But it is exactly fields such as quantum information, which are shifting the boundaries of the physically possible, that make a foundational understanding of information increasingly important. One of the recurring themes of the book is the claim by Eddington and Wheeler that information involves interaction and putting agents or observers centre stage. Thus, physical reality, in their view, is shaped by the questions we choose to put to it and is built up from the information residing at its core. This is the root of Wheeler?s famous phrase ?it from bit.? After reading the stimulating essays collected in this volume, readers will be in a good position to decide whether they agree with this view. 410 0$aThe Frontiers Collection,$x1612-3018 606 $aPhysics 606 $aPhilosophy and science 606 $aQuantum computers 606 $aSpintronics 606 $aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P29000 606 $aPhilosophy of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34000 606 $aQuantum Computing$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M14070 606 $aQuantum Information Technology, Spintronics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P31070 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aPhilosophy and science. 615 0$aQuantum computers. 615 0$aSpintronics. 615 14$aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Science. 615 24$aQuantum Computing. 615 24$aQuantum Information Technology, Spintronics. 676 $a121 702 $aDurham$b Ian T$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aRickles$b Dean$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910741166003321 996 $aInformation and Interaction$92169041 997 $aUNINA