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Sketch for a Theory of Evolution Based on Coding

Joachim De Beule. 2014. Sketch for a Theory of Evolution Based on Coding. Biosemiotics, 7 (2), 181-201

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Code Biology

Barbieri, Marcello. 2015. Code Biology. Dordrecht: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14535-8.

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The nature of randomness and fundamental physical limits of secrecy

People have always been fascinated by randomness and intrigued by the fundamental question – is any outcome that appears random to us only so by virtue of our ignorance, or do there exist experiments whose outcome is inherently unpredictable to any observers, no matter how powerful or omniscient they might be?

Renato Renner Renato Renner Miklos Santha Miklos Santha Thomas Vidick Thomas Vidick Artur Ekert Artur Ekert
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