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At Home in the Universe : The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity,
Stuart Kauffman
Stuart Kauffman has a ton of excellent ideas. Definitely a buy.

Three Scientists and Their Gods,
Robert Wright
This book is excellent for exploring different notions of the universe, most notably Fredkins ideas about what the univers is up to.

Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers,
Claude Shannon
You have got to get these originals, they are fun reading as well.

Information Theory,
Robert B. Ash
A primer on information theory.

Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge,
William Poundstone
A must buy! This book lays the foundation for how to understand the universe as a recursive phenomena.

Cellular Automata and Complexity,
Stephan Wolfram
Stephen Wolframs seminal papers all collected into one place.

An Introduction to Kolmogrov Complexity and its applications,
Minq Li
This is the one book I have not read, but if I can save up the money I certainly will. Why do information theory books have to be so expensive?

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