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Maxwell's daemon, the Turing machine, and Jaynes' robot

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Abstract

A review of Jaynes' posthumous book "Probability Theory--The Logic of Science." I use scientific and personality elements gathered from other papers by Jaynes to help throw light on the origins of Jaynes' life quest.

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@article{arxiv.math/0410411,
  title  = {Maxwell's daemon, the Turing machine, and Jaynes' robot},
  author = {Tommaso Toffoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0410411},
  year   = {2007}
}

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3 pages, two-column latex