Information and Interaction Eddington, Wheeler, and the Limits of Knowledge /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Durham, Ian T. (Editor), Rickles, Dean (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Philosophy and science.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; Quantum Computing.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

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 e...

Table of Contents:

• 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).