From Complexity to Life

On the Emergence of Life and Meaning

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2003
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-515070-4 (ISBN)

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Brings together a group of scholars in the sciences of complexity, and workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the implications of complexity studies. This book includes an introduction to complexity studies and explores the concept of information in physics and biology and various philosophical and religious perspectives.

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.

Part 1: Introduction ; 1. Towards an Emergentist Worldview ; Part 2: Defining Complexity ; 2. Randomness and Mathematical Proof ; 3. "How to define Complexity in Physics, and Why?" ; Part 3: The Concept of Information in Physics and Biology ; 4. The Emergence of Autonomous Agents ; 5. Complexity and The Arrow of Time ; 6. Can Evolutionary Algorithms Generate Specified Complexity? ; 7. The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics ; 8. Two Arrows from a Mighty Bow ; Part 4: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives ; 9. Emergence of Transcendence ; 10. Complexity, Emergence and Divine Creativity ; 11. From Anthropic Design to Self-Organized Complexity

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.1.2003
Zusatzinfo	numerous figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	0-19-515070-8 / 0195150708
ISBN-13	978-0-19-515070-4 / 9780195150704
Zustand	Neuware