Thinking in complexity : the complex dynamics of matter, mind, and mankind /
The theory of nonlinear complex systems has become a successful and widely used problem-solving approach in the natural sciences - from laser physics, quantum chaos and meteorology to molecular modeling in chemistry and computer simulations of cell growth in biology. In recent times it has been reco...
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[1994]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: From Linear to Nonlinear Thinking
- 2. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Matter. 2.1. Aristotle's Cosmos and the Logos of Heraclitus. 2.2. Newton's and Einstein's Universe and the Demon of Laplace. 2.3. Hamilton Systems and the Chaos of Heaven and the Quantum World. 2.4. Dissipative Systems and the Emergence of Order
- 3. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Life. 3.1. From Thales to Darwin. 3.2. Boltzmann's Thermodynamics and the Evolution of Life. 3.3. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Organisms. 3.4. Complex Systems and the Ecology of Populations
- 4. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Mind-Brain. 4.1. From Plato's Soul to Lamettrie's 'L'Homme machine'. 4.2. Complex Systems and Neural Networks. 4.3. Brain and the Emergence of Consciousness. 4.4. Intentionality and the Crocodile in the Brain
- 5. Complex Systems and the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence. 5.1. Leibniz and the Mathesis Universalis.