| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 487 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Canto classics
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Canto classics.
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| Summary |
From quantum to biological and digital, here eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. History. From matter to materialism ... and (almost) back -- Unsolved dilemmas : the concept of matter in the history of philosophy and in contemporary physics -- part II. Physics. Universe from bit -- The computational universe -- Minds and values in the quantum universe -- part III. Biology. The concept of information in biology -- What is missing from theories of information? -- Information and communication in living matter -- Semiotic freedom : an emerging force -- Care on Earth : generating informed concern -- part IV. Philosophy and theology. The sciences of complexity : a new theological resource? -- God as the ultimate informational principle -- Information, theology and the universe -- God, matter and information : towards a stoicizing logos Christology -- What is the "spiritual body"? : on what may be regarded as "ultimate" in the interrelation between God, matter and information. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cosmology -- Congresses.
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Cosmology. |
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Information science -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Information science -- Philosophy. |
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Information science. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Davies, Paul (Paul J.)
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Gregersen, Niels Henrik, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davies, Paul. Information and the Nature of Reality. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014 9781107684539 |
| ISBN |
9781107589056 (electronic book) |
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1107589053 (electronic book) |
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9781139923224 (electronic book) |
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1139923226 (electronic book) |
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9781139911481 (electronic book) |
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1139911481 (electronic book) |
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1107684536 |
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9781107684539 |
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9781139907637 (e-book) |
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1139907638 (e-book) |
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9781107684539 (paperback) |
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