Physical Perspectives on Computation, Computational Perspectives on Physics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cuffaro, Michael E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although computation and the science of physical systems would appear to be unrelated, there are a number of ways in which computational and physical concepts can be brought together in ways that illuminate both. This volume examines fundamental questions which connect scholars from both disciplines: is the universe a computer? Can a universal computing machine simulate every physical process? What is the source of the computational power of quantum computers? Are computational approaches to solving physical problems and paradoxes always fruitful? Contributors from multiple perspectives reflecting the diversity of thought regarding these interconnections address many of the most important developments and debates within this exciting area of research. Both a reference to the state of the art and a valuable and accessible entry to interdisciplinary work, the volume will interest researchers and students working in physics, computer science, and philosophy of science and mathematics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316762356
• Artikelnr.: 56609111

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Introduction Michael E. Cuffaro
and Samuel C. Fletcher; Part I. The Computability of Physical Systems and
Physical Systems as Computers: 1. Ontic pancomputationalism Gualtiero
Piccinini and Neal G. Anderson; 2. Zuse's thesis, Gandy's thesis, and
Penrose's thesis B. Jack Copeland, Oron Shagrir and Mark Sprevak; 3.
Church's thesis, Turing's limits, and Deutsch's principle Rossella
Lupacchini; Part II. The Implementation of Computation in Physical Systems:
4. How to make orthogonal positions parallel: revisiting the quantum
parallelism thesis Armond Duwell; 5. How is there a physics of information?
On characterizing physical evolution as information processing Owen J. E.
Maroney and Christopher G. Timpson; 6. Abstraction/representation theory
and the natural science of computation Dominic Horsman, Viv Kendon and
Susan Stepney; Part III. Physical Perspectives on Computer Science: 7.
Physics-like models of computation Klaus Sutner; 8. Feasible computation:
methodological contributions from computational science Robert H. C. Moir;
9. Relativistic computation Hajnal Andréka, Judit X. Madarász, István
Németi, Péter Németi and Gergely Székely; Part IV. Computational
Perspectives on Physical Theory: 10. Intension in the physics of
computation: lessons from the debate about Landauer's principle James
Ladyman; 11. Maxwell's demon does not compute John D. Norton; 12. Quantum
theory as a principle theory: insights from an information-theoretic
reconstruction Adam Koberinski and Markus P. Müller; Bibliography; Index.