LEADER 01337nam0 22002651i 450 001 UON00090104 005 20231205102506.96 100 $a20020107d1991 |0itac50 ba 101 $aita 102 $aIT 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aAtti del II Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici 210 $aRoma$cCNR$d1991 3 v. ; 29 cm Roma, 9-14 nov. 1987 606 $aLETTERATURA POPOLARE $xEDIPO$3UONC017177$2FI 606 $aFENICI$xCongressi$3UONC027177$2FI 620 $aIT$dRoma$3UONL000004 712 02$aConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche$cRoma$bIstituto per la Civiltą Feni cia e Punica$3UONV056474 712 $aCNR$3UONV248192$4650 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20240220$gRICA 912 $aUON00090104 950 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$dSI O 3 030 1 $eSI MC 15399 7 950 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$dSI O 3 030 2 $eSI MC 15400 7 950 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$dSI O 3 030 3 $eSI MC 15401 7 996 $aAtti del II Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici$91304883 997 $aUNIOR LEADER 07042nam 2200469 450 001 9910830981403321 005 20230630001736.0 010 $a1-119-82395-1 010 $a1-119-82396-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000011809490 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6528125 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6528125 035 $a(OCoLC)1244622882 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011809490 100 $a20211015d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aChance, calculation and life /$fedited by Thierry Gaudin, Marie-Christine Maurel, Jean-Charles Pomerol 210 1$aHoboken, New Jersey :$cISTE Ltd :$cJohn Wiley and Sons Inc,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (305 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-78630-667-0 327 $aCover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1: Randomness in all of its Aspects -- 1 Classical, Quantum and Biological Randomness as Relative Unpredictability -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.1. Brief historical overview -- 1.1.2. Preliminary remarks -- 1.2. Randomness in classical dynamics -- 1.3. Quantum randomness -- 1.4. Randomness in biology -- 1.5. Random sequences: a theory invariant approach -- 1.6. Classical and quantum randomness revisited -- 1.6.1. Classical versus algorithmic randomness -- 1.6.2. Quantum versus algorithmic randomness -- 1.7. Conclusion and opening: toward a proper biological randomness -- 1.8. Acknowledgments -- 1.9. References -- 2 In The Name of Chance -- 2.1. The birth of probabilities and games of chance -- 2.1.1. Solutions -- 2.1.2. To what end? -- 2.2. A very brief history of probabilities -- 2.3. Chance? What chance? -- 2.4. Prospective possibility -- 2.4.1. LLN + CLT + ENIAC = MC -- 2.4.2. Generating chance through numbers -- 2.4.3. Going back the other way -- 2.4.4. Prospective possibility as master of the world? -- 2.5. Appendix: Congruent generators, can prospective chance be periodic? -- 2.5.1. A little modulo n arithmetic -- 2.5.2. From erratic arithmetic to algorithmic randomness -- 2.5.3. And, the winner is... Mersenne Twister 623 -- 2.6. References -- 3 Chance in a Few Languages -- 3.1. Classical Sanskrit -- 3.2. Persian and Arabic -- 3.3. Ancient Greek -- 3.4. Russian -- 3.5. Latin -- 3.6. French -- 3.7. English -- 3.8. Dice, chance and the symbolic world -- 3.9. References -- 4 The Collective Determinism of Quantum Randomness -- 4.1. True or false chance -- 4.2. Chance sneaks into uncertainty -- 4.3. The world of the infinitely small -- 4.4. A more figurative example -- 4.5. Einstein's act of resistance. 327 $a4.6. Schro?dinger's cat to neutrino oscillations -- 4.7. Chance versus the anthropic principle -- 4.8. And luck in life? -- 4.9. Chance and freedom -- 5 Wave-Particle Chaos to the Stability of Living -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The chaos of the wave-particle -- 5.3. The stability of living things -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 5.5. Acknowledgments -- 5.6. References -- 6 Chance in Cosmology: Random and Turbulent Creation of Multiple Cosmos -- 6.1. Is quantum cosmology oxymoronic? -- 6.4. Loop lament -- 6.5. The quantum vacuum exists, Casimir has met it -- 6.6. The generosity of the quantum vacuum -- 6.7. Landscapes -- 6.8. The good works of Inflation -- 6.9. Sub species aeternitatis -- 6.10. The smiling vacuum -- 7 The Chance in Decision: When Neurons Flip a Coin -- 7.1. A very subjective utility -- 7.2. A minimum rationality -- 7.3. There is noise in the choices -- 7.4. On the volatility of parameters -- 7.5. When the brain wears rose-tinted glasses -- 7.7. The will to move an index finger -- 7.8. Free will in debate -- 7.9. The virtue of chance -- 7.10. References -- 8 To Have a Sense of Life: A Poetic Reconnaissance -- 8.1. References -- 9 Divine Chance -- 9.1. Thinking by chance -- 9.2. Chance, need: why choose? -- 9.3. When chance is not chance -- 9.4. When chance comes from elsewhere -- 10 Chance and the Creative Process -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Chance -- 10.3. Creation -- 10.4. Chance in the artistic creative process -- 10.5. An art of the present moment -- 10.6. Conclusion -- 10.7. References -- PART 2: Randomness, Biology and Evolution -- 11 Epigenetics, DNA and Chromatin Dynamics: Where is the Chance and Where is the Necessity? -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Random combinations -- 11.3. Random alterations -- 11.4. Beyond the gene -- 11.5. Epigenetic variation -- 11.6. Concluding remarks -- 11.7. Acknowledgments -- 11.8. References. 327 $a12 When Acquired Characteristics Become Heritable: The Lesson of Genomes -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Horizontal genetic exchange in prokaryotes -- 12.3. Two specificities of eukaryotes theoretically oppose horizontal gene transfer -- 12.4. Criteria for genomic analysis -- 12.5. Abundance of horizontal transfers in unicellular eukaryotes -- 12.6. Remarkable horizontal genetic transfers in pluricellular eukaryotes -- 12.7. Main mechanisms of horizontal genetic transfers -- 12.8. Introgressions and limits to the concept of species -- 12.9. Conclusion -- 12.10. References -- 13 The Evolutionary Trajectories of Organisms are Not Stochastic -- 13.1. Evolution and stochasticity: a few metaphors -- 13.2. The Gouldian metaphor of the "replay" of evolution -- 13.3. The replay of evolution: what happened -- 13.4. Evolutionary replay experiments -- 13.5. Phylogenies versus experiments -- 13.6. Stochasticity, evolution and extinction -- 13.7. Conclusion -- 13.8. References -- 14 Evolution in the Face of Chance -- 14.1. Introduction -- 14.2. Waddington and the concept of canalization -- 14.3. A stochastic model of Darwinian evolution -- 14.3.1. Redundancy and neutral networks -- 14.3.2. A toy model -- 14.3.3. Mutation-selection algorithm -- 14.4. Numerical results -- 14.4.1. Canalization -- 14.4.2. Target selection -- 14.4.3. Neighborhood selection -- 14.5. Discussion -- 14.6. Acknowledgments -- 15 Chance, Contingency and the Origins of Life: Some Historical Issues -- 15.1. Acknowledgments -- 15.2. References -- 16 Chance, Complexity and the Idea of a Universal Ethics1 -- 16.1. Cosmic evolution and advances in computation -- 16.2. Two notions of complexity -- 16.3. Biological computations -- 16.4. Energy and emergy -- 16.5. What we hold onto -- 16.6. Noah knew this already! -- 16.7. Create, protect and collect -- 16.8. An ethics of organized complexity. 327 $a16.9. Not so easy -- 16.10. 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