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 29: Directional Computational Mechanics I

Reading: CMR articles TBA, PRATISP, IACP, and IACPLCOCS.

Topics:

  1. Forward and reverse processes
  2. Forward and reverse computational mechanics
  3. Time-reversal symmetric: Predictability
  4. Causal irreversibility
  5. Information diagram
  6. Process lattice
  7. Calculating reverse ϵ-machine given the forward one