E-grāmata: Physics Of Emergence And Organization

Twenty-five international academics and researchers contribute 18 articles to a state-of-the-art review on the physics of emergence, for students and experts in the field. The text contains significant and pioneering work based on rigorous physical and mathematical approaches dealing with the bridge-laws and their limitations between physics and biology, and discusses the involved epistemological features. A sampling of topics: emergence and computation at the edge of classical and quantum systems, gauge generalized principle for complex systems, a cross- disciplinary framework for the description of contextually mediated change, phase transitions in biological matter, the dissipative quantum model of brain and laboratory observations, primordial evolution in the finitary process soup, emergence of universe from a quantum network, order in the nothing--autopoiesis and the organizational characterization of the living, and anticipation in biological and cognitive systems--the need for a physical theory of biological organization. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)