LEADER 02584nam 22005533u 450 001 9910456610203321 005 20210106230124.0 010 $a0-19-972894-1 010 $a1-280-75994-1 010 $a9786610759941 035 $a(CKB)2430000000004762 035 $a(EBL)271715 035 $a(OCoLC)870243368 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000300459 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12095768 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300459 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10251687 035 $a(PQKB)11295672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC271715 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000004762 100 $a20151123d2003|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInvestigations$b[electronic resource] 210 $cOxford University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (548 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-512105-8 327 $aContents; Preface; 1 Prolegomenon to a General Biology; 2 The Origins of Life; 3 Autonomous Agents; 4 Propagating Organization; 5 A Physics of Semantics?; 6 Emergence and Story: Beyond Newton, Einstein, and Bohr?; 7 The Nonergodic Universe: The Possibility of New Laws; 8 Candidate Laws for the Coconstruction of a Biosphere; 9 The Persistently Innovative Econosphere; 10 A Coconstructing Cosmos?; Epilogue; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $aIn the tradition of Schrodinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein. Kauffman's At Home in the Universe, which The New York Times Book Review called ""passionately written"" and nature named ""courageous,"" introduced pivotal ideas about order and evolution in complex life systems. In investigations, Kauffman builds on these theories and finds that classical sciencedoes not take 606 $aBiology - General$2HILCC 606 $aBiology$2HILCC 606 $aHealth & Biological Sciences$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aBiology - General 615 7$aBiology 615 7$aHealth & Biological Sciences 676 $a500 700 $aKauffman$b Stuart A$061682 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456610203321 996 $aInvestigations$928836 997 $aUNINA