Science and ultimate reality: quantum theory, cosmology, and complexity

Content: Foreword John A. Wheeler
 Editor\'s preface John D. Barrow, Paul Davies and Charles Harper, Jr.
 Preface Freeman J. Dyson
 Part I. An Overview of the Contributions of John Archibald Wheeler: 1. John Archibald Wheeler and the clash of ideas Paul C. W. Davies
 Part II. An Historian\'s Tribute to John Archibald Wheeler and Scientific Speculation Through the Ages: 2. The heritage of Heraclitus: John Archibald Wheeler and the itch to speculate Jaroslav Pelikan
 Part III. Quantum Reality - Theory: 3. Why is nature described by quantum theory? Lucien Hardy
 4. Thought experiments in honor of John Wheeler Freeman J. Dyson
 5. It from qubit David Deutsch
 6. The wave function: it or bit? H. Dieter Zeh
 7. Quantum Darwinism and envariance Wojciech H. Zurek
 8. Using qubits to learn about it Juan Pablo Paz
 9. Quantum gravity as an ordinary gauge theory Juan M. Maldacena
 10. The Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics Bryce S. DeWitt
 Part IV. Quantum Reality - Experiment: 11. Why the quantum? It from bit? A participatory universe? Three far-reaching, visionary questions from John Archibald Wheeler and how they inspired a quantum experimentalist Anton Zeilinger
 12. Speakable and unspeakable, past and future Aephraim M. Steinberg
 13. Conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics and general relativity: are there experimental consequences? Raymond Y. Chiao
 14. Breeding non-local Schrodinger cats: a thought experiment to explore the quantum classical boundary Serge Haroche
 15. Quantum erasing the nature of reality - or, perhaps, the reality of nature? Paul G. Kwiat and Berthold-Georg Englert
 16. Quantum feedback and the quantum-classical transition Hideo Mabuchi
 17. What quantum computers may tell us about quantum mechanics Christopher R. Monroe
 Part V. Big Questions in Cosmology: 18. Cosmic inflation and the arrow of time Andreas Albrecht
 19. Cosmology and immutability John D. Barrow
 20. Quantum cosmology, inflation, and the anthropic principle Andrei Linde
 21. Parallel universes Max Tegmark
 22. Quantum theories of gravity: results and prospects Lee Smolin
 23. A genuinely evolving universe Joao Magueijo
 24. Planck-scale models of the universe Fotini G. Markopoulou
 25. Implications of additional spatial dimensions to questions in cosmology Lisa Randall
 Part VI. Emergence, Life, and Related Topics: 26. Emergence: us from it Philip D. Clayton
 27. True complexity and its associated ontology George F. R. Ellis
 28. The three origins: cosmos, life and mind Marcelo Gleiser
 29. Autonomous agents Stuart A. Kauffman
 30. To see a world in a grain of sand Shou-Cheng Zhang
 Appendix A. Science and ultimate reality program committees
 Appendix B. Young researchers competition in honor of John Archibald Wheeler for physics graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and young faculty.