Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Energy and information -- 2.1. The relativity and contextuality of major physical categories -- 2.2. Boltzmann-Shannon informational entropy -- 2.3. Digital strings and normal numbers -- 2.4. Universal and eternal records, or why pi is not exactly three -- 2.5. Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel3. Chaos and self-organization in random systems -- 3.1. Dichotomy of order and chaos -- 3.2. Nature's quest for patterns -- 3.3. Pythagoras, 'everything is a number' and modern physics -- 3.4. Digital Pythagoreanism and the omega number -- 3.5. Universal emergence and the 'Platonic pressure effect' -- 3.6. Cantor, G?odel and 'ultimate issues' -- 3.7. It from bit and the Leibnitz principle -- 3.8. Mandelbrot sets and the infinite intricacy of the Platonic world -- 3.9. Symmetry breaking and the emergence of order -- 3.10. Electrostatic ordering and ionic crystals -- 3.11. Rene Thom's catastrophe theory and electrostatic phase transitions -- 3.12. The problem of 'N dictators'4. Isotopicity in physics and engineering -- 4.1. Stable and radioactive isotopes -- 4.2. Isotopicity meme -- 4.3. Milestones of isotopes -- 4.4. Isotopic curiosity and prime numbers -- 4.5. Isotopic freedom and many facets of isotopicity -- 4.6. My 'Newton's apple' of isotopicity -- 4.7. Isotopic fiber optics -- 4.8. Isotopic information storage (digital isotopicity) -- 4.9. Isotopic superlattices -- 4.10. Isotopic quantum wells -- 4.11. Isotopic tribology -- 4.12. Isotopic effects in corrosion -- 4.13. Isotopes in quantum computing -- 4.14. Isotopic random number generators -- 4.15. Isotopic randomness as symmetry breaking factor -- 4.16. Instability of isotopically mixed systems -- 4.17. The cosmic scales of nuclear wave functions5. Isotopicity in biology and in the theory of consciousness -- 5.1. Mechanistic and holistic approaches to consciousness -- 5.2. The observer effect in quantum physics -- 5.3. The holomovement of David Bohm and universal entanglement -- 5.4. Biological implications of isotopic diversity -- 5.5. The concept of isotopic biology -- 5.6. Isotopic biology and subtle genetic messages -- 5.7. Isotopicity in nano and biomedical technology -- 5.8. Unstable isotopes and biological information -- 5.9. Isotopicity in consciousness dynamics : Anderson localization -- 5.10. Isotopic castling -- 5.11. Neutron tunneling and quantum consciousness -- 5.12. Isotopicity and the Gaia concept -- 5.13. Isotopicity and personal identity -- 5.14. Isotopes : a 'secret tool' of nature's creativity? -- 5.15. Is Nature 'isotopically smart'? -- 5.16. Isotopic ordering in liquids and 'soft structures' -- 5.17. Isotopic neural networks6. Discovery and innovation in our digital society -- 6.1. The blessings and evils of global interconnectedness and digitization -- 6.2. The paths and mazes of science and discovery -- 6.3. Premature and delayed discoveries -- 6.4. The Mobius strip and recycling bins -- 6.5. More delayed discoveries -- 6.6. Big science and peer review -- 6.7. Orthodoxies and heresies -- 6.8. The crowd mentality and the interdisciplinary paradox -- 6.9. Going 'around' the system : isotopicity as an example -- 6.10. Random creativity and Laputa machines -- 6.11. Living in the Matrix--physics reloaded -- 7. Conclusion. Message to the young reader.