The earth story in wisdom traditions / / edited by Norman C. Habel & Shirley Wurst

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828706303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• ISBN: 1-283-19560-7; 9786613195609; 0-567-26361-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Collana: The earth Bible ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 261.83628
• Soggetti: Environmental protection - Religious aspects - Christianity; Human ecology in the Bible
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Editorial Preface; Preface; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Six Ecojustice Principles; Where Is the Voice of Earth in Wisdom Literature?; Wisdom Literature and Ecofeminism; Woman Wisdom's Way: Ecokinship; Earth First: Inverse Cosmology in Job; Job 12: Cosmic Devastation and Social Turmoil; Who Cares? Reflections on the Story of the Ostrich (Job 39.13-18); Divine Creative Power and the Decentering of Creation: The Subtext of the Lord's Addresses to Job; Plumbing the Depths of Earth: Job 28 and Deep Ecology; 'Go Forth into the Fields': An Earth-Centered Reading of the Song of SongsEco-Delight in the Song of Songs; Ecclesiastes 3.16-22: An Ecojustice Reading, with Parallels from African Wisdom; God's Design: The Death of Creation? An Ecojustice Reading of Romans 8.18-30 in the Light of Wisdom 1-2; 'Is the Wild Ox Willing to Serve You?' Challenging the Mandate to Dominate; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: In this volume scholars from around the world read the story of the Earth in major Wisdom Traditions using the ecojustice principles outlined in Volume 1, 'Readings from the Perspective of Earth'. These ; readings uncover a range of fresh perspectives about Earth in seeking to discover where the voices of Earth are suppressed or heard in the Wisdom texts. Some texts reveal an ecokinship between Earth and Wisdom. Texts from Job challenge a cosmic model that gives priority to heaven over Earth. Still others challenge the mandate to dominate in Genesis 1.28. In many texts, Wisdom provides a vehicle

The local information dynamics of distributed computation in complex systems / / Joseph T. Lizier

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910437925903321
• Autore: Lizier Joseph T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Springer, 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-91154-X; 3-642-32952-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Collana: Springer theses, , 2190-5053
• Disciplina: 004; 004.36
• Soggetti: Communication of technical information; Entropy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Computation in complex systems -- Information storage -- Information transfer -- Information modifications -- Information dynamics in networks and phase transitions -- Coherent information structure in complex computation -- Information transfer in biological and bio-inspired systems -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: The nature of distributed computation in complex systems has often been described in terms of memory, communication and processing. This thesis presents a complete information-theoretic framework to quantify these operations on information (i.e. information storage, transfer and modification), and in particular their dynamics in space and time. The framework is applied to cellular automata, and delivers important insights into the fundamental nature of distributed ; computation and the dynamics of complex systems (e.g. that gliders are dominant information transfer agents). Applications to several important network models, including random Boolean networks, suggest that the capability for information storage and coherent transfer are maximized near the critical regime in certain order-chaos phase transitions. Further applications to study and design information structure in the contexts of computational neuroscience and guided self-organization underline the practical utility of the techniques presented here. .