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Ontic pancomputationalism / Gualtiero Piccinini and Neal G. Anderson -- Zuse's thesis, Gandy's thesis, and Penrose's thesis / B. Jack Copeland, Oron Shagrir, and Mark Sprevak -- Church's thesis, Turing's limits, and Deutsch's principle / Rossella Lupacchini -- How to make orthogonal positions parallel: revisiting the quantum parallelism thesis / Armond Duwell -- How is there a physics of information? on characterizing physical evolution as information processing / Owen J.E. Maroney and Christopher G. Timpson -- Abstraction/representation theory and the natural science of computation / Dominic Horsman, Viv Kendon, and Susan Stepney -- Physics-like models of computation / Klaus Sutner -- Feasible computation: methodological contributions from computational science / Robert H.C. Moir -- Relativistic computation / Hajnal Andréka, Judit X. Madarsssz, Istvssn Németi, Péter Németi, and Gergely Székely -- Intension in the physics of computation: lessons from the debate about Landauer's principle / James Ladyman -- Maxwell's demon does not compute / John D. Norton -- Quantum theory as a principle theory: insights from an information-theoretic reconstruction / Adam Koberinski and Markus P. Müller.

Although computation and the science of physical systems would appear to be unrelated, there are a number of ways in which computational and physical concepts can be brought together in ways that illuminate both. This volume examines fundamental questions which connect scholars from both disciplines: is the universe a computer? Can a universal computing machine simulate every physical process? What is the source of the computational power of quantum computers? Are computational approaches to solving physical problems and paradoxes always fruitful? Contributors from multiple perspectives reflecting the diversity of thought regarding these interconnections address many of the most important developments and debates within this exciting area of research. Both a reference to the state of the art and a valuable and accessible entry to interdisciplinary work, the volume will interest researchers and students working in physics, computer science, and philosophy of science and mathematics.