"Physics as Information Processing" ~ Chris Fields ~ Lecture 1

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Course taught by Chris Fields Course assistant is Ander Aguirre Hosted during
2023 by the Active Inference Institute Session 1 (18 May) will review some
history, starting with Boltzmann’s relation between entropy and energy, and
continuing through Church’s and Turing’s models of computation, Shannon’s
information theory, the “black box” methods of Ashby et al., Pearl’s
definition of a Markov blanket, Bekenstein’s area law for black holes, ‘t
Hooft’s and Susskind’s formulation of the holographic principle, the ideas of
objects, interfaces, and virtual machines in computing, up to Friston’s 2010
and 2013 papers introducing active inference. The goal of this session is to
establish the idea of a Markov blanket as a communication interface. Active
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