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

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

Spring
WWW: http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/ncaso/

Lecture 26: Information Diagrams for Processes

Reading: CMR articles Yeung, TBA, PRATISP.

Topics:

  1. Projects
  2. Prediction versus retrodiction
  3. Time symmetry
  4. Time asymmetry
  5. Causal irreversibility
  6. Information diagram for processes
  7. ϵ-Machine information diagram for processes
  8. Unpredictability
  9. The mystery wedge
  10. Distance between the past and the future