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The bit and the pendulum : from quantum computing to M theory-- the new physics of information / Tom Siegfried.

Title: The bit and the pendulum : from quantum computing to M theory-- the new physics of information / Tom Siegfried.
Author: Siegfried, Tom
Publication: New York : Wiley, c2000.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-274) and index.

Contents

1. Beam up the goulash -- 2. Machines and metaphors -- 3. Information is physical -- 4. The quantum and the computer -- 5. The computational cell -- 6. The computational brain -- 7. Consciousness and complexity -- 8. IGUSes -- 9. Quantum reality -- 10. From black holes to supermatter -- 11. The magical mystery theory -- 12 The bit and the pendulum.

ISBN

0471321745 (alk. paper)
0471399744 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99022275^

OCLC

41547130
SCSB-10416562

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Harvard Library