Information
primary axis · 1,019 hits · 5 branches
Branches it touches
- 04-information — Shannon 1948, Turing 1936, Kolmogorov complexity, Chaitin Ω
- 02-physics — Wheeler "it from bit", quantum measurement, Landauer's principle (erasure costs energy)
- 05-biophysics — DNA encoding, neural coding, signal transduction, biophoton information channels
- 06-cosmology — Holographic principle ('t Hooft, Susskind), black hole entropy (Bekenstein-Hawking)
- 07-mind — Mental content, symbol grounding, integrated information theory (Tononi)
Primary sources
- Shannon — A Mathematical Theory of Communication (Bell System Tech J, 1948)
- Turing — On Computable Numbers (Proc LMS, 1936)
- Wheeler — "Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links" (1989)
- Bekenstein — black hole entropy bound papers
- Tononi — IIT papers
Notes / open questions
Tier: candidate primary axis.
Wheeler's "it from bit" is the explicit thesis that information is the substrate.
If true, energy/matter/spacetime are emergent. This is the bridge with the
strongest formal program (holography, IIT) but weakest empirical confirmation.