Complexification Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise

Name: Complexification Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise
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ISBN: 9780060925871

ISBN-10: 0060925876

ISBN-13: 9780060925871

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Authors: John L. Casti

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List price: $14.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/12/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Simple and the Complex: Realities, Rules and Surprises	p. 1
In the Beginning is the Wor(l)d	p. 1
Rules of Reality	p. 11
Patterns, Puzzles and Paradoxes	p. 15
It's All in the Motion	p. 25
The Catastrophic: Intuition: Small, gradual changes in causes give rise to small, gradual changes in effects	p. 43
Continuity and Common Sense	p. 43
The Fall of the Wall and the Collapse of a Beam	p. 48
The Magnificent Seven	p. 57
Physics and Metaphysics	p. 65
The Theater of the Absurd	p. 80
The Chaotic: Intuition: Deterministic rules of behavior give rise to completely predictable events	p. 85
Expecting the Unexpected	p. 85
Recipes for Randomness	p. 88
Statistically Speaking	p. 98
Bulls, Bears and Beer	p. 102
Computing the Cosmos	p. 113
The Lawless: Intuition: All real-world truths are the logical outcome of following a set of rules	p. 115
The Power of Paradox	p. 115
Reality Rules	p. 120
Magic Machines and Busy Beavers	p. 125
Truth Is Stranger Than Proof	p. 138
Out-Godeling Godel	p. 143
Real Brains, Artificial Minds	p. 150
Minds, Machines and Evolution	p. 166
The Irreducible: Intuition: Complicated systems can always be understood by breaking them down into simpler parts	p. 171
Getting It Together	p. 171
Making Connections	p. 185
The Time of Your Life	p. 198
Some Surprising Connections	p. 205
The Emergent: Intuition: Surprising behavior results only from complicated, hard-to-understand interactions among a system's component parts	p. 212
Checkerboard Computers	p. 213
That's Life?	p. 221
The Most Complicated Thing in the World	p. 229
From Bach to Rock and Bach Again	p. 242
Climbing the Devil's Staircase	p. 249
The Simply Complex: On the Creation of a Science of Surprise	p. 260
The Anatomy of Surprise	p. 260
"Complexification"	p. 269
The Science of Surprise	p. 274
To Dig Deeper	p. 279
Index	p. 309
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