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Anyone know what book this is from? Looks like it is Chapter 19?

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I can't be sure, but it might be this: https://www.google.se/search?q=ISBN+9780201515060

Looks like this paper is the opening chapter of that book. The search continues!

http://toc.nkp.cz/VSE/201103/contents/vse000191986_1.pdf

A. Hey edited „Feynman Lectures on Computation” for publication and later collected some assorted papers of guest lecturers Feynman would invite in „Feynman and computation – exploring the limits of computers”. This „It from bit” paper by Wheeler (Feynman’s advisor) is the 19th there.

I really would like to know the name of the book from which this index is. It's super interesting and I really want to read that book. Please let me know once you find it. Sincerely,

Book already referenced by GP, click your links. These are old classic conference proceedings edited by Zurek https://archive.org/details/ComplexityEntropyAndThePhysicsOf... but it’s a mixed bag unless you really fancy EG quantum field theorist’s opinions on workings of visual cortex.

Thanks for posting it! It's unfortunate that the entry doesn't include the ISBN number [0], and that it consequently doesn't turn up when searching for that number

[0] I consider "ISBN number" to be a reasonable expression, with the interpretation "the number that goes by the name _ISBN_".

Thanks; I remember reading this in the LBL library, and just ordered a copy! If there's anything modern along these lines which doesn't concentrate on "quantum computing" I'd love to know about it.

Montanari/Mezard perhaps?

highly recommend this as well.

Cool book for sure, but I was thinking of something which would mention stuff like Rovelli's forays into Information theories of QM, or that crazy paper I found in the library once and lost completely which posited quantum entanglement worked like public key crypto. The weird ideas that didn't quite pan out. I'm a fan of weird ideas that don't quite work; reading Whittaker's history of E&M or stuff like the reletivistic aether theory in Sommerfeld's book.

Mostly interested as I had my own weird idea that (mostly) didn't pan out based on the Gutzwiller trace formula and symbolic dynamics of phase space.

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