(Page 0557) Defining Complexity Much of what I have done in this book has been concerned in one way or another with phenomena associated with complexity. But just as one does ...

(Page 0601) So given such an encrypting sequence, is there any easy way to do cryptanalysis and go backwards and work out the key? It turns out that there is. For as the ...

(Page 0633) My strong belief -- as I will argue in Chapter 12 -- is that at least in complete generality this will never be possible. But that does not mean that there cannot ...

(Page 0687) additional localized structures are produced that can be seen propagating to the left. These structures could later cause trouble, but looking at region (b) we ...

(Page 0736) argued that it is responsible for much of the complexity we see in nature and elsewhere. Yet so far I have given no fundamental explanation for the phenomenon. ...

(Page 0779) to state will also be easy to prove. But experience suggests that this is far from correct. And indeed there are all sorts of well-known examples -- such as ...

(Page 0799) But one feature is that normally the resulting axiom system is in a sense more general than the objects one started from. And this is why for example one can ...

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(Page 0959e) Notes for: Starting from Randomness | The Notion of Attractors Surjectivity and injectivity [of cellular automaton maps] One can think of a cellular automaton ...

(Page 0983a) Notes for: Mechanisms in Programs and Nature | Origins of Discreteness General features of phase transitions To reproduce the Ising model, a cellular automaton ...