Investigations

Name: Investigations
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ISBN: 9780195121056

ISBN-10: 0195121058

ISBN-13: 9780195121056

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Authors: Stuart A. Kauffman

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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 science does not take into account that physical systems--such as people in a biosphere--effect their dynamic environments in…

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List price: $43.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/19/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 8.98" wide x 5.83" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.858

Biophysicist Stuart A. Kauffman works at the University of Pennsylvania and is assocated with a think tank at the Santa Fe Institute. Kauffman has written At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity and The Origin of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution.



Preface



Prolegomenon to a General Biology



The Origins of Life



Autonomous Agents



Propagating Organization



A Physics of Semantics?



Emergence and Story: Beyond Newton, Einstein, and Bohr?



The Nonergodic Universe: The Possibility of New Laws



Candidate Laws for the Coconstruction of a Biosphere



The Persistently Innovative Econosphere



A Coconstructing Cosmos?


Epilogue


References


Index