From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0195150708 ISBN 13: 9780195150704

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2003

Riassunto

This book brings together an impressive group of leading scholars in the sciences of complexity, and a few workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the wider implications of complexity studies. It includes an introduction to complexity studies and explores the concept of information in physics and biology and various philosophical and religious perspectives. Chapter authors include Paul Davies, Greg Chaitin, Charles Bennett, Werner Loewenstein, Paul Dembski, Ian Stewart, Stuart Kauffman, Harold Morowitz, Arthur Peacocke, and Niels H. Gregersen.

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Melanie Mitchell's book is most enjoyable, truly inspiring, skillfully written, and, above all, beautifully clear. The author's enthusiasm and passion for the field make the book fascinating to read. Her rigor, clarity, and healthy skepticism make the book sound and the field scientifically stronger. It is an excellent and rigorous account of the scientific field of complexity. She proves by example that it is possible to explain complex systems science with rigor, breadth, depth, and - above all - exquisite clarity (Artificial Life)

Contenuti

• Part 1: Introduction
• 1: Towards an Emergentist Worldview
• Part 2: Defining Complexity
• 2: Randomness and Mathematical Proof
• 3: "How to define Complexity in Physics, and Why?"
• Part 3: The Concept of Information in Physics and Biology
• 4: The Emergence of Autonomous Agents
• 5: Complexity and The Arrow of Time
• 6: Can Evolutionary Algorithms Generate Specified Complexity?
• 7: The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics
• 8: Two Arrows from a Mighty Bow
• Part 4: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives
• 9: Emergence of Transcendence
• 10: Complexity, Emergence and Divine Creativity
• 11: From Anthropic Design to Self-Organized Complexity

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195150708
• ISBN 13: 9780195150704
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Gregersen Niels Henrik
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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