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Imari Walker, S. (ed), From Matter to Life – Information and Causality (2017)

1 Introduction
SARA IMARI WALKER, PAUL C. W. DAVIES, AND GEORGE F. R. ELLIS

Part I Physics and Life

2 The “Hard Problem” of Life
SARA IMARI WALKER AND PAUL C. W. DAVIES

3 Beyond Initial Conditions and Laws of Motion: Constructor Theory of Information and Life
CHIARA MARLETTO

Part II Bio from Bit

4 (How) Did Information Emerge?
ANNE-MARIE GRISOGONO

5 On the Emerging Codes for Chemical Evolution
JILLIAN E. SMITH-CARPENTER, SHA LI, JAY T. GOODWIN, ANIL K. MEHTA, AND DAVID G. LYNN

6 Digital and Analogue Information in Organisms
DENIS NOBLE

7 From Entropy to Information: Biased Typewriters and the Origin of Life
CHRISTOPH ADAMI AND THOMAS LABAR

Part III Life’s Hidden Information

8 Cryptographic Nature
DAVID KRAKAUER

9 Noise and Function
STEVEN WEINSTEIN AND THEODORE P. PAVLIC

10 The Many Faces of State Space Compression
DAVID WOLPERT, ERIC LIBBY, JOSHUA A. GROCHOW, AND SIMON DEDEO

11 Causality, Information, and Biological Computation: An Algorithmic Software Approach to Life, Disease, and the Immune System
HECTOR ZENIL, ANGELIKA SCHMIDT, AND JESPER TEGNÉR

Part IV Complexity and Causality

12 Life’s Information Hierarchy
JESSICA FLACK

13 Living through Downward Causation: From Molecules to Ecosystems
KEITH D. FARNSWORTH, GEORGE F. R. ELLIS, AND LUC JAEGER

14 Automata and Animats: From Dynamics to Cause–Effect Structures
LARISSA ALBANTAKIS AND GIULIO TONONI

15 Biological Information, Causality, and Specificity: An Intimate Relationship
KAROLA STOTZ AND PAUL E. GRIFFITHS

Part V From Matter to Mind

16 Major Transitions in Political Order
SIMON DEDEO

17 Bits from Brains: Analyzing Distributed Computation in Neural Systems
MICHAEL WIBRAL, JOSEPH LIZIER, AND VIOLA PRIESEMANN

18 Machine Learning and the Questions It Raises
G. ANDREW D. BRIGGS AND DAWID POTGIETER