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How Many Bytes in Human Memory
A 1988 paper by Ralph C. Merkle.
www.merkle.com
Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information
A particular philosophical approach to the definition of information.
www.utexas.edu
The Computational Notion of Life
Claus EMMECHE, 1994. This paper makes an interesting link between concepts of computation, cellular automata and the definition of the concept of information.
www.nbi.dk
On the descriptive terminology of the information transfer between organisms
Koszteyn and Lenartowicz consider the information transfer between organisms as a multi-layer reality consisting of at least two levels: the message and its production.
www.iscid.org
Information Theory Primer With an Appendix on Logarithms
A introduction written for molecular biologists who are unfamiliar with information theory
www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov
Algorithmic Information Theory
G. J. Chaitin's series of lectures at the Santa Fe Institute in April 1995.
www.umcs.maine.edu
A 306 page online book in PDF format by Robert M. Gray of Stanford University.
ee-www.stanford.edu
Gödel's Theorem and Information
A G.J.Chaitin proof of Gödel's Theorem using arguments having an algorithmic information theory flavor.
www.cs.auckland.ac.nz
An introductory article on information and probability distributions( version of 98-06-10). The first in a sequence of introductory articles on information and probability distributions by Marijke van Gans.
www.maxwellian.demon.co.uk
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
A rather puzzling article by Brig Klyce about entropy with references to living systems from the point of view of thermodynamics and information theory.
www.panspermia.com
Irreducible Complexity and Multiscale Reductionism
System complexity seen from a different point of view.
shum.cc.huji.ac.il
A Mathematical Theory Of Communication
Shannon's highly influential 1948 paper. (PDF) www.essrl.wustl.edu
Interesting papers on evolutionary computation and on computation in artificially evolved, non-uniform cellular automata.
lslwww.epfl.ch
Does the Universe in Fact Contain Almost No Information?
A controversial paper by Max Tegmark suggesting that the algorithmic information content of the universe as a whole is close to zero. (PDF)
arxiv.org
Quantum Algorithmic Information Theory
An agenda of quantum algorithmic information theory, ordered `top-down' by Karl Svozil : the quantum halting amplitude, followed by the quantum algorithmic information content, which in turn requires the theory of quantum computation. (PDF)
arxiv.org