Computation + life + physics resources

Last updated Jan 1, 2023

• https://artificialnature.net/courses/datt4950/index.html
  Course material covering cellular automata, term rewriting, evolutionary systems.
• Artificial Chemistries (Banzhaf & Yamamoto)
  Textbook covering various kinds of simulated chemical systems. Essential reading.

• Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process (Landauer)
  The paper that presented Landauer’s principle of heat generation in computing.
• The thermodynamics of computation—a review (Bennet)
  Overview of computation in thermodynamical systems in light of Landauer’s principle and computability theory.
• Reversibility for Efficient Computing (Frank)
• Logical Reversibility of Computation (Bennet)

• Information, Physics, Quantum: The search for links
  Classic paper by Wheeler on unsolved problems relating physics to information.
• Feynman and Computation
  Collection of papers connecting physics to computation in memory of Feynman.
• Looking at Nature as a Computer (Margolus)
• Physics-like models of computation (Margolus)
• Norman Margolus’ homepage
• Invertible Cellular Automata: A Review (Toffoli and Margolus)
• What is the Lagrangian counting? (Toffoli)
• On Wheeler’s notion of “law without law” in physics (Deutsch)
• A Digital Perspective and the Quest for Substrate-Universal Behaviors

• Reviews and criticism of Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science