Seth Lloyd endorsed

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Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information

by Vlatko Vedral (Oxford, £16.99)

With French-theory antennae primed, one thinks of Ferdinand de Saussure on reading this: "[T]he information content of anything does not reside in the object itself, but is a relational property of the object in connection with the rest of the Universe." Vedral himself takes pleasure in speculative connections between his own work in quantum-information theory and other realms – the book opens with a story from Italo Calvino, and takes in Nietzsche and the "negative theology" of the Cappadocian Fathers, as the author puts a computational twist on discussions of DNA, dieting and stock-market investing, as well as explaining entropy and quantum computing or teleportation