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David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication

COMPLEXITY

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Aspects of Statistical Physics That Reflect Your Ignorance

There's this famous phrase from John Wheeler back in the mid 20th century. The notion that somehow all of reality was nothing more than a manifestation of information processing. So there's another aspect to thermodynamics of computation. It's viewed by many physicists as an actually far more fundamental, profound part of the fabric of reality.

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