# Artificial life - https://artificialnature.net/courses/datt4950/index.html Course material covering cellular automata, term rewriting, evolutionary systems. - [Artificial Chemistries (Banzhaf & Yamamoto)](https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4046/Artificial-Chemistries) Textbook covering various kinds of simulated chemical systems. Essential reading. # Thermodynamics and computation - [Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process (Landauer)](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5392446) The paper that presented Landauer's principle of heat generation in computing. - [The thermodynamics of computation—a review (Bennet)](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02084158) Overview of computation in thermodynamical systems in light of Landauer's principle and computability theory. - [Reversibility for Efficient Computing (Frank)](https://web1.eng.famu.fsu.edu/~mpf/Frank-99-PhD-bookmarked.pdf) - [Logical Reversibility of Computation (Bennet)](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5391327) # Physics and computation - [Information, Physics, Quantum: The search for links](https://philpapers.org/archive/WHEIPQ.pdf) Classic paper by Wheeler on unsolved problems relating physics to information. - [Feynman and Computation](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.1201/9780429500459/feynman-computation-anthony-hey) Collection of papers connecting physics to computation in memory of Feynman. - [Looking at Nature as a Computer (Margolus)](https://people.csail.mit.edu/nhm/looking-at-nature.pdf) - [Physics-like models of computation (Margolus)](https://people.csail.mit.edu/nhm/bbmca-physica.pdf) - Norman Margolus' [homepage](https://people.csail.mit.edu/nhm/) - [Invertible Cellular Automata: A Review (Toffoli and Margolus)](https://people.csail.mit.edu/nhm/ica.pdf) - [What is the Lagrangian counting? (Toffoli)](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024411819910) - [On Wheeler's notion of “law without law” in physics (Deutsch)](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01886521) - [A Digital Perspective and the Quest for Substrate-Universal Behaviors](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024419614459) - [Reviews and criticism](https://web.archive.org/web/20220923195824/http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_reviews.html) of Stephen Wolfram's *A New Kind of Science*