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Chapter VI: Information | The Philosophy Of Science by Steven Gussman [1st Edition]

          “Whereas the complexity of an object measures how complicated it is to describe, its information           content measures the extent to which it describes the rest of the world... What I am casually calling           the information content of an object is in technical terms called the mutual information between           the object and the rest of the world.”           – Max Tegmark I           “The rule that dynamical laws must be deterministic and reversible is so central to classical           physics that we sometimes forget to mention it when teaching the subject... what is undoubtedly           the most fundamental of all physical laws— the conservation of information .  The conservation of       ...