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Information and interaction = Eddington, Wheeler, and the limits of knowledge /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Information and interaction/ edited by Ian T. Durham, Dean Rickles.
Reminder of title:	Eddington, Wheeler, and the limits of knowledge /
other author:	Durham, Ian T.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xxiii, 212 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Knowledge, Theory of. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43760-6
ISBN:	9783319437606

Information and interaction = Eddington, Wheeler, and the limits of knowledge /
Information and interactionEddington, Wheeler, and the limits of knowledge /[electronic resource] :edited by Ian T. Durham, Dean Rickles. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xxiii, 212 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - The frontiers collection,1612-3018. - Frontiers collection..

Boundaries 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)

In 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.

ISBN: 9783319437606

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-43760-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

554789
Knowledge, Theory of.

LC Class. No.: BD161

Dewey Class. No.: 121

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