LEADER 04542nam 22006135 450 001 9910279576703321 005 20200706121318.0 010 $a3-319-74533-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-74533-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000002892335 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5346312 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-74533-6 035 $a(PPN)225553600 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002892335 100 $a20180319d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBridging the Gap between Life and Physics /$fby Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 328 pages) 311 $a3-319-74532-8 327 $a000 Preface -- 00 Foreword -- 0 Contents -- 1 Setting the Stage -- 2 Opening the Curtains -- 3 Partial Everything -- 4 Just In Time -- 5 A Fishy Business -- 6 And Yet It Moves -- 7 Seeing the Wood -- 8 Two?s Company -- 9 Really Reality -- 10 Under the Hood -- 11 Thinking Things -- 12 Making a Difference -- 13 Two into One -- 14 Mind Matters -- 15 Bridging the Gap -- 16 Closing the Curtains -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Index. 330 $aThis is the only book which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones. The culmination of the book is the proposition of research to discover and understand the natural underlying level of organization which produces the descriptive commonality of life and physics. Traditional science eliminates life from its purview by its rejection of interrelationships as a primary content of systems. The conventional procedure of science is that of reductionism, whereby complex systems are dismantled to characterize lower level components, but virtually no attention is given to how to rebuild those systems?the underlying assumption is that analysis and synthesis are symmetrical. This book fulfills two main coupled functions. Firstly, it details hierarchy as the major formulation of natural complex systems and investigates the fundamental character of natural hierarchy as a widely transferable ?container? of structure and/or function ? and this in the case of the new development of a representational or model hierarchy. Secondly, it couples this hierarchical description to that of the electronic properties of semiconductors, as a well-modeled canonical example of physical properties. The central thesis is that these two descriptions are comparable, if care is taken to treat logical and epistemological aspects with prudence: a large part of the book is composed of just this aspect of care for grounding consistency. As such great attention is given to correct assessment of argumentative features which are otherwise presumed ?known? but which are usually left uncertain. Development of the ideas is always based on a relationship between entity or phenomenon and their associated ecosystems, and this applies equally well to the consequent derivations of consciousness and information. 606 $aBiotic communities 606 $aScience 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 606 $aComputers 606 $aSolid state physics 606 $aEcosystems$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L1904X 606 $aScience, multidisciplinary$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/A12000 606 $aEpistemology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E13000 606 $aTheory of Computation$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I16005 606 $aSolid State Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P25013 615 0$aBiotic communities. 615 0$aScience. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 615 0$aComputers. 615 0$aSolid state physics. 615 14$aEcosystems. 615 24$aScience, multidisciplinary. 615 24$aEpistemology. 615 24$aTheory of Computation. 615 24$aSolid State Physics. 676 $a570 700 $aCottam$b Ron$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0979628 702 $aRanson$b Willy$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910279576703321 996 $aBridging the Gap between Life and Physics$92234110 997 $aUNINA