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an interdisciplinary search for a unifying principle
1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) : illustrations.
The concept of self-organization is at the heart of the theory of complex systems. It describes how order can emerge from disorder in otherwise chaotic nonlinear dynamical systems. This book investigates and surveys the role of self-organization in a wide variety of disciplines. The contributions are written by world-renowned scientists and philosophers at a level that is accessible to nonspecialists.
Introduction / E. Zwierlein -- Self-Organization in Evolution, Immune Systems, Economics, Neural Nets, and Brains / H.J. Bremermann -- On the Evolution of Open Socio-economic Systems / F. Ninterberger -- Can Synergetics Serve as a Bridge Between the Natural and Social Sciences / H. Haken -- Modelling Concepts of Synergetics with Application to Transitions Between Totalitarian and Liberal Political Ideologies / W. Weidlich -- Self-Organization, Artificial Intelligence and Connectionism / M. Richter -- Speedup of Self-Organization Through Quantum Mechanical Parallelism / M. Conrad -- Living State for Self-Organization A Plea / R.K. Mishra -- A Model for Stimulated and Co-operative Electron Transfer in Biomolecular Systems / L. Pohlmaun and H. Tributsch -- Self-Organization, Catastrophe Theory and the Problem of Segmentation / P.T. Saunders and M.W. Ho -- Self-Organization, Entropy and Order / P.T. Landsberg -- Self-Organization, Valuation and Optimization / W. Ebeling.
Symbolic Dynamics and the Description of Complexity / B. Hao -- Instabilities in Nonlinear Dynamics: Paradigms for Self-Organization / R. Bullough -- Uncertainty Principle, Coherence and Structures / K. Li -- Intrinsic Irreversibility of Unstable Dynamical System / E. Antoniou and S. Tasaki -- Self-Organization as a Creative Process Philosophical Aspects / V. Nalimov -- Music and Mind -- A Theory of Aesthetic Dynamics / B.D. Josephson and T. Carpenter -- The Paradigm of Self-Organization and Its Philosophical Foundation / E. Zwierlein.
R.K. Mishra, D. Maass, E. Zwierlein, eds.
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