The symposium is an attempt to offer perspectives and paradigms in science, which point out novel characters of natural processes. These issues are presented by outstanding scientists selected in the most advanced fields of science, from various points of the scientific horizon and with widely different new experimental evidence.
Foreword, G. Costa; creativity information, and change - new casual models, G. Kampis; the end of the crucial experiment - a neglected theme in the history of turn-of-the-century theoretical physics, S. D'Agostino; endomorphisms and visualization, R. Abraham; elementary chemical processes - how quantum and semiclassical mechanics avoid classical catastrophes and chaos, V. Aquilanti; discrete control variable in chemical chaos, N. Rahman; supramolecular chemistry, J.-M. Lehn; self-reproducting liposomes and chemical autopoiesis, P.L. Luisi and P. Walde; biological macromolecules and the phase transitions they bring about, A. Salam; programmable matter - a laboratory for learning what goes into creation, T. Toffoli; the concept of the individual in population and community risk assessment, T. Hallam; epistemological issues of science for the global environment, S.O. Funtowicz. (Part Contents).