From Complexity to Life - On the Emergence of Life and Meaning

Zusatztext Melanie Mitchell's book is most enjoyable, truly inspiring, skillfully written, and, above all, beautifully clear. The author's enthusiasm and passion for the field make the book fascinating to read. Her rigor, clarity, and healthy skepticism make the book sound and the field scientifically stronger. It is an excellent and rigorous account of the scientific field of complexity. She proves by example that it is possible to explain complex systems science with rigor, breadth, depth, and - above all - exquisite clarity Klappentext This book brings together an impressive group of leading scholars in the sciences of complexity! and a few workers on the interface of science and religion! to explore the wider implications of complexity studies. It includes an introduction to complexity studies and explores the concept of information in physics and biology and various philosophical and religious perspectives. Chapter authors include Paul Davies! Greg Chaitin! Charles Bennett! Werner Loewenstein!Paul Dembski! Ian Stewart! Stuart Kauffman! Harold Morowitz! Arthur Peacocke! and Niels H. Gregersen. Zusammenfassung Brings together a group of scholars in the sciences of complexity, and workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the implications of complexity studies. This book includes an introduction to complexity studies and explores the concept of information in physics and biology and various philosophical and religious perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Niels Henrik Gregersen
• Assisted by: Niels Henrik Gregersen (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9780195150704
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515070-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, MATHEMATICS / Applied, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Applied mathematics, Evolution / Evolutionary biology