Physics Of Emergence and Organization

by Licata, Ignazio; Sakaji, Ammar

• ISBN13: 9789812779946
• ISBN10: 9812779949
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book is a state-of-the-art review on the Physics of Emergence. The challenge of complexity is to focus on the description levels of the observer in context-dependent situations. Emergence is not only an heuristic approach to complexity, but it also urges us to face a much deeper question - what do we think is fundamental in the physical world?

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Emergence and Computation at the Edge of Classical and Quantum Systems	p. 1
Gauge Generalized Principle for Complex Systems	p. 27
Undoing Quantum Measurement: Novel Twists to the Physical Account of Time	p. 61
Process Physics: Quantum Theories as Models of Complexity	p. 77
A Cross-disciplinary Framework for the Description of Contextually Mediated Change	p. 109
Quantum-like Probabilistic Models Outside Physics	p. 135
Phase Transitions in Biological Matter	p. 165
Microcosm to Macrocosm via the Notion of a Sheaf (Observers in Terms of t-topos)	p. 229
The Dissipative Quantum Model of Brain and Laboratory Observations	p. 233
Supersymmetric Methods in the Traveling Variable: Inside Neurons and at the Brain Scale	p. 253
Turing Systems: A General Model for Complex Patterns in Nature	p. 267
Primordial Evolution in the Finitary Process Soup	p. 297
Emergence of Universe from a Quantum Network	p. 313
Occam's Razor Revisited: Simplicity vs. Complexity in Biology	p. 327
Order in the Nothing: Autopoiesis and the Organizational Characterization of the Living	p. 339
Anticipation in Biological and Cognitive Systems: The Need for a Physical Theory of Biological Organization	p. 371
How Uncertain is Uncertainty?	p. 389
Archetypes, Causal Description and Creativity in Natural World	p. 405
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