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Constructor Theory of Information with David Deutsch

Fallible Animals

CHAPTER

The Constructive Theory of Information

In Constructive Theory, a system is an information medium if it can be in at least two different states. The only concrete results that we can display at the moment is the fact that this is also enough to define quantum information. We think that construct a theory provides a very powerful tool for setting up a theory of measurement within a newly proposed theory of physics - even though it's conceptually strange.

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