From Complexity to Life: On The Emergence of Life and Meaning

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Niels Henrik Gregersen
Oxford University Press, 28. 11. 2002 - 256 strán (strany)
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.
 

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Toward an Emergentist Worldview
3
DEFINING COMPLEXITY
17
THE CONCEPT OF INFORMATION IN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY
45
PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES
175
Index
235
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