PHY 28A
Natural Computation and Self-Organization:
The Physics of Information Processing in Complex Systems

Jim Crutchfield
chaos@csc.ucdavis.edu; http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos

Winter
WWW: http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/poci/

Lecture 12: From determinism to stochasticity—Measurement Theory I

Reading: Lecture Notes.
Topics:

  1. Review last lecture.
  2. State-space partitioning
  3. Orbit and sequence spaces
  4. Good instruments and informative measurements
  5. Markov partitions in 1D

Reading for next meeting: Lecture Notes.