====== 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

[[proyectos:tfg:bibliografia:marletto2017|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