Physics of Emergence and OrganizationThis 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?This volume provides significant and pioneering contributions based on rigorous physical and mathematical approaches ? with particular reference to the syntax of Quantum Physics and Quantum Field Theory ? dealing with the bridge-laws and their limitations between Physics and Biology, without failing to discuss the involved epistemological features.Physics of Emergence and Organization is an interdisciplinary source of reference for students and experts whose interests cross over to complexity issues. |
Contents
Emergence and Computation at the Edge of Classical and Quantum Systems Ignazio Licata | 1 |
Gauge Generalized Principle for Complex Systems Germano Resconi | 27 |
Novel Twists to the Physical Account of Time Avshalom C Elitzur and Shahar Dolev | 61 |
Quantum Theories as Models of Complexity Kirsty Kitto | 77 |
A Crossdisciplinary Framework for the Description of Contextually Mediated Change Liane Gabora and Diederik Aerts | 109 |
Quantumlike Probabilistic Models Outside Physics Andrei Khrennikov | 135 |
Phase Transitions in Biological Matter Eliano Pessa | 165 |
Microcosm to Macrocosm via the Notion of a Sheaf Observers in Terms of ttopos Goro Kato | 229 |
A General Model for Complex Patterns in Nature RA Barrio | 267 |
Primordial Evolution in the Finitary Process Soup Olof G ornerup and James P Crutch eld | 297 |
Emergence of Universe from a Quantum Network Paola A Zizzi | 313 |
Simplicity vs Complexity in Biology Joseph P Zbilut | 327 |
Autopoiesis and the Organizational Characterization of the Living Leonardo Bich and Luisa Damiano | 339 |
The Need for a Physical Theory of Biological Organization Graziano Terenzi | 371 |
How Uncertain is Uncertainty? Tibor Vamos | 389 |
Archetypes Causal Description and Creativity in Natural World Leonardo Chiatti | 405 |
The Dissipative Quantum Model of Brain and Laboratory Observations Walter J Freeman and Giuseppe Vitiello | 233 |
Inside Neurons and at the Brain Scale HC Rosu O CornejoP erez and JE P erezTerrazas | 253 |
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