Investigations / / Stuart A. Kauffman

• Autore: Kauffman Stuart A.
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2000; 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (548 p.)
• Disciplina: 576.8301
• Soggetto topico: Life - Origin - Philosophy; Self-organizing systems - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Investigations
• ISBN: 0-19-972894-1; 1-280-75994-1; 9786610759941
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780791203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II