The Information Theory of Individuality (ITT) has been selected by Quanta as one of 2020's science breakthroughs. Thanks to @QuantaMagazine for recognizing our work @sfiscience+for the tremendous public service it provides reporting science rigorously 1/6 https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-biology-2020-20201223/
The Year in Biology

While the study of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was the most urgent priority, biologists also learned more about how brains process information, how to define individuality and why sleep deprivation kills.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-biology-2020-20201223/
Other biology studies recognized include @mattlark, @YiotaPoirazi+Gidon et el’s empirical work showing single neurons can compute the XOR function, sleep is vital to keeping intestinal free radicals in check,+ the relation b/w genomic+organismal complexity is itself complex. 2/6
Among the physics work is Nicolas Gisin's research on time's arrow. Gisin suggests the debate abt whether time is an illusion can be resolved by a mathematical frameshift from Platonistic to intuitionist mathematics built on time-evolving processes 3/6 https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-physics-2020-20201223/
The Year in Physics

Featuring paradoxical black holes, room-temperature superconductors and a new escape from the prison of time.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-physics-2020-20201223/
Among work selected in CS + math, a paper connecting quantum physics to Turing's theory of computation that shows quantum computers by calculating w/ entangled qbits can (in theory) be used to verify answers to a vast set of problems https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-math-and-computer-science-2020-20201223/
The Year in Math and Computer Science

Even as mathematicians and computer scientists proved big results in computational complexity, number theory and geometry, computers proved themselves increasingly indispensable in mathematics.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-math-and-computer-science-2020-20201223/
To learn more about information theory, read this excellent, accessible essay by David Tse @QuantaMagazine on how Shannon essentially invented your future+provided the groundbreaking foundations on which our Information Theory of Individuality is built 5/6 https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/
How Claude Shannon Invented the Future

Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/
Finally, for a short primer on the Information theory of Individuality, see this thread. 6/6 https://twitter.com/C4COMPUTATION/status/1245055915423744000?s=20
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