From Complexity to Life: On The Emergence of Life and MeaningNiels Henrik Gregersen Oxford University Press, 28 בנוב׳ 2002 - 256 עמודים 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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DEFINING COMPLEXITY | 17 |
THE CONCEPT OF INFORMATION IN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY | 45 |
PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES | 175 |
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anthropic principle antibody arrow autonomous agents behavior binary biological biosphere blind search Boltzmann causal cells Chaitin chaos clumpiness coarse-graining com plexity complex systems con concept cosmic cosmological Darwinian defined demon dis disorder dynamical emergence energy entropy equilibrium evolution evolutionary algorithm evolved example existence explain finite fitness function fitness landscapes formal system fourth law given God’s gravitic systems heat human increases informa information theory informational context initial conditions intelligent design Kauffman law of thermodynamics laws of physics logical mathematical mechanics microstate million molecular molecules mutations nature no-free-lunch theorem notion organisms original phase space particles particular Peacocke phase space photon piston possible pro probability problem processes properties protein quantum random relation replicators Schrödinger scientific second law selection self-organization sense specified complexity stars statistical structure Stuart Kauffman target sequence theology theorem ther thermodynamic entropy thermodynamic system time-reversible tion trajectories uni universe