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The book contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of changing related to a wide variety of specific disciplinary aspects. Classical attempts to deal with them, based on generalising approaches used to study the movement of bodies and environmental influence, have included ineffective reductionistic simplifications. Indeed changing also relates, for instance, to processes of acquisition and varying properties such as for software; growing and aging biological systems; learning/cognitive systems; and
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This book contains the Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of emergence, considering theoretical aspects and applications from physics, cognitive science, biology, artificial intelligence, economics, architecture, philosophy, music and social systems. Such an interdisciplinary study implies the need to model and distinguish, in different disciplinary contexts, the establishment of structures, systems and systemic properties. Systems, as modeled by the observer, not only possess properties, but are also abl
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'Evolution and Emergence' is a collection of essays by experts in the field, exploring how nature works to produce systems of increasing complexity from simple components, and how our understanding of this phenomenon of emergence can lead us to a deeper appreciation of both our humanity and our relationship to God.
Emergence (Philosophy) --- Science --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Emergent evolution (Philosophy) --- Emergent laws (Philosophy) --- Emergent philosophy --- Emergent properties (Philosophy) --- Emergent structure (Philosophy) --- Emergentism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Evolution --- Philosophy. --- Science - Philosophy.
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This book is a state-of-the-art review on the Physics of Emergence. The challenge of complexity is to focus on the description levels of the observer in context-dependent situations. Emergence is not only an heuristic approach to complexity, but it also urges us to face a much deeper question - what do we think is fundamental in the physical world?This volume provides significant and pioneering contributions based on rigorous physical and mathematical approaches - with particular reference to the syntax of Quantum Physics and Quantum Field Theory - dealing with the bridge-laws and their limita
Emergence (Philosophy) --- Relativity (Physics) --- Gravitation --- Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics --- Space and time --- Emergent evolution (Philosophy) --- Emergent laws (Philosophy) --- Emergent philosophy --- Emergent properties (Philosophy) --- Emergent structure (Philosophy) --- Emergentism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Evolution
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All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species-interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"-are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of ephemeral beings, revitalizing evolutionary science with their own, more resilient findings. Eldredge begins in France with the naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who in 1801 first framed the overarching question about the emergence of new species. The Italian geologist Giambattista Brocchi followed, bringing in geology and paleontology to expand the question. In 1825, at the University of Edinburgh, Robert Grant and Robert Jameson introduced the astounding ideas formulated by Lamarck and Brocchi to a young medical student named Charles Darwin. Who can doubt that Darwin left for his voyage on the Beagle in 1831 filled with thoughts about these daring new explanations for the "transmutation" of species. Eldredge revisits Darwin's early insights into evolution in South America and his later synthesis of knowledge into a theory of the origin of species. He then considers the ideas of more recent evolutionary thinkers, such as George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the young and brash Niles Eldredge and Steven Jay Gould, who set science afire with their concept of punctuated equilibria. Filled with insights into evolutionary biology and told with a rich affection for the scientific arena, this book celebrates the organic, vital relationship between scientific thinking and its subjects.
Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution) --- Evolution (Biology) --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Emergent evolution (Philosophy) --- Emergent laws (Philosophy) --- Emergent philosophy --- Emergent properties (Philosophy) --- Emergent structure (Philosophy) --- Emergentism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Evolution --- Equilibrium, Punctuated (Evolution) --- Punctuated equilibria (Evolution) --- Punctuationalism (Evolution) --- Philosophy. --- Darwin, Charles,
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Emergence (Philosophy) --- Metaphysics. --- Ontology. --- Being --- Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Emergent evolution (Philosophy) --- Emergent laws (Philosophy) --- Emergent philosophy --- Emergent properties (Philosophy) --- Emergent structure (Philosophy) --- Emergentism (Philosophy) --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Evolution
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Revisiting and defending a key doctrine of the once widely accepted school of philosophy known as emergentism, Gerald Vision proposes that conscious states are emergents, although they depend for their exsitence on their material bases.
PHILOSOPHY --- General --- Consciousness --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Consciousness. --- Emergent evolution (Philosophy) --- Emergent laws (Philosophy) --- Emergent philosophy --- Emergent properties (Philosophy) --- Emergent structure (Philosophy) --- Emergentism (Philosophy) --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Evolution --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
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This volume introduces readers to emergence theory, outlines the major arguments in its defence, and summarizes the most powerful objections against it. It provides the clearest explication yet of this exciting new theory of science, which challenges the reductionist approach by proposing the continuous emergence of novel phenomena.
Emergence (Philosophy) --- Science --- Consciousness. --- Religion and science. --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science and religion --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Emergent evolution (Philosophy) --- Emergent laws (Philosophy) --- Emergent philosophy --- Emergent properties (Philosophy) --- Emergent structure (Philosophy) --- Emergentism (Philosophy) --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Evolution --- Philosophy. --- Religious aspects
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The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world. In this elegant picture, everything we observe is based upon just a few fundamental processes and entities. The almost infinite variety and complexity of the world is thus the product of emergence. But the concept of emergence is fraught with controversy and confusion. This book ponders the question of how emergence should be understood within the scientific picture, and whether a complete vision of the world can be attained that includes consciousness.
Textile fabrics. --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Atomic Physics --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Philosophy of mind. --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Emergent evolution (Philosophy) --- Emergent laws (Philosophy) --- Emergent philosophy --- Emergent properties (Philosophy) --- Emergent structure (Philosophy) --- Emergentism (Philosophy) --- Physics. --- Neurobiology. --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Neuropsychology. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Evolution --- Psychology, clinical. --- Complex Systems. --- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. --- Mathematical statistics --- Neurosciences --- Statistical methods --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Statics
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This book provides a short, hands-on introduction to the science of complexity using simple computational models of natural complex systems-with models and exercises drawn from physics, chemistry, geology, and biology. By working through the models and engaging in additional computational explorations suggested at the end of each chapter, readers very quickly develop an understanding of how complex structures and behaviors can emerge in natural phenomena as diverse as avalanches, forest fires, earthquakes, chemical reactions, animal flocks, and epidemic diseases.Natural Complexity provides the necessary topical background, complete source codes in Python, and detailed explanations for all computational models. Ideal for undergraduates, beginning graduate students, and researchers in the physical and natural sciences, this unique handbook requires no advanced mathematical knowledge or programming skills and is suitable for self-learners with a working knowledge of precalculus and high-school physics.Self-contained and accessible, Natural Complexity enables readers to identify and quantify common underlying structural and dynamical patterns shared by the various systems and phenomena it examines, so that they can form their own answers to the questions of what natural complexity is and how it arises.
Complexity (Philosophy) --- Physics --- Computational complexity. --- Complexity, Computational --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory --- Philosophy --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Methodology. --- Burridge-Knopoff stick-slip model. --- Gutenberg-Richter law. --- Johannes Kepler. --- Olami-Feder-Christensen model. --- Python code. --- accretion. --- active flockers. --- agents. --- automobile traffic. --- avalanches. --- cells. --- cellular automata. --- chaos. --- clusters. --- complex behavior. --- complex structure. --- complex system. --- complexity. --- computational model. --- computer program. --- contagious diseases. --- criticality. --- diffusion-limited aggregation. --- earthquake forecasting. --- earthquakes. --- emergence. --- emergent behavior. --- emergent structure. --- epidemic spread. --- epidemic surges. --- excitable system. --- flocking. --- forest fires. --- fractal clusters. --- fractal geometry. --- growth. --- hodgepodge machine. --- infection rate. --- iterated growth. --- lattice. --- lichens. --- natural complex system. --- natural complexity. --- natural order. --- natural phenomena. --- nature. --- open dissipative system. --- panic. --- passive flockers. --- pattern formation. --- percolation threshold. --- percolation. --- phase transition. --- planetary motion. --- power-law. --- random walk. --- randomness. --- repulsion. --- rule-based growth. --- sandpile. --- scale invariance. --- segregation. --- self-organization. --- self-organized criticality. --- self-propulsion. --- self-similarity. --- simple rules. --- small-world network. --- solar flares. --- spaghetti. --- spatiotemporal pattern. --- spiral. --- tagging algorithm. --- traffic jams. --- waves. --- wildfire management.
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