Determinism, Holism, and Complexity

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

AvClaudio Pellegrini,Paola Cerrai,Paolo Freguglia,Vieri Benci,Giorgio Israel

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This volume is the proceedings of a workshop to discuss the recent work on complex systems in physics and biology, its epistemological and cultural implications, and its effect for the development of these two sciences. The workshop is geared towards physicists, biologists, and science historians.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-12-01
Mått210 x 279 x 23 mm
Vikt1 028 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor402
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781441933942

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Complexity and emergence of meaning.- A geometric optics experiment to simulate the betatronic motion.- Some remarks on the arrow of time and the notion of information.- How real is the quantum world?.- Decoherence and Classical Behaviour in Quantum Mechanics.- Scaling Laws: Microscopic and Macroscopic Behavior.- Measure of diffusion entropy of weak turbulence.- Complexity in physics of an adhesive tape.- Reflections about the time arrow.- The Big Computer. Complexity and Computability in Physical Universe.- On the Uniqueness or Multiplicity of Physical Theories.- An interplay between determinism and one-parameter semigroups.- From dynamical systems to complex systems.- Shape and size in biology and medicine.- Assessment of the quality of waters and the environment.- Synchronization of neocortical interneurons.- The fractal borderland.- Emergent properties and complexity for biological theories.- Ignoring complex interactions in natural ecosystems.- A compression algorithm as a complexity measure on DNA sequences.- Reductionism and history: the biology between Scylla and Charybdis.- A characterization for a set of trinucleotides to be a circular code.- Deterministic and random components of over time evolution.- Toward creating life in a test-tube.- Tubulin and the complexity of life.- Phylogenies and the new evolutionary synthesis.- Cell system complexity and biological evolution.- Self-organization and prebiotic environment.- James and Freud on psychical determinism.- Probabilistic aspects in George D. Birkhoff’s work.- The metamorphosis of holism.- Early approaches to the management of complexity.- The dignity of the natural sciences.- Holism: some historical aspects.- Towards a history of complexity.