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Various issues in theoretical physics can be fruitfully analyzed by Kolmogorov complexity. This is the case for physical aspects of information processing, and for application of complexity to physics issues. Physicists have used complexity arguments in a variety of settings like information distance, thermodynamics, chaos, biology, and philosophy. We touch briefly upon several themes, but focus on two main issues.
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Li, M., Vitányi, P. (1993). Physics and Computation. In: An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3860-5_8
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