Contents
About the authors
Acknowledgments
1
Introduction: does information matter?
Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen
Part I
History
2
From matter to materialism … and (almost) back
Ernan Mcmullin
3
Unsolved dilemmas: the concept of matter in the history of philosophy and in contemporary physics
Philip Clayton
Part II
Physics
4
Universe from bit
Paul Davies
5
The computational universe
Seth Lloyd
6
Minds and values in the quantum universe
Henry Stapp
Part III
Biology
7
The concept of information in biology
John Maynard Smith
8
What is missing from theories of information?
Terrence W. Deacon
9
Information and communication in living matter
Bernd-olaf Küppers
10
Semiotic freedom: an emerging force
Jesper Hoffmeyer
11
Care on Earth: generating informed concern
Holmes Rolston, III
Part IV
Philosophy and Theology
12
The sciences of complexity: a new theological resource?
Arthur Peacocke
13
God as the ultimate informational principle
Keith Ward
14
Information, theology, and the universe
John F. Haught
15
God, matter, and information: towards a Stoicizing Logos Christology
Niels Henrik Gregersen
16
What is the ‘spiritual body’? On what may be regarded as ‘ultimate’ in the interrelation between God, matter, and information
Michael Welker
Index