It from Bit: The Science of Information

What if, at its heart, the universe is not a collection of particles, forces and fields but rather a collection of bits?

A lecture by Professor Richard Harvey, IT Livery Company Professor of IT 23 October 2018

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Physicist John Wheeler asked the famous 'It from bit?' question: what if at its heart the universe is not a collection of particles, forces and fields but rather a collection of bits? If this is true, it leads us to new insights in compression, machine learning, artificial intelligence and maybe even the universe and life itself.

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