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Over these few short pages, I should like to offer you a brief introduction, or rather, a lengthy invitation, to an emerging field of scientific study. Rather than attempt, impossibly, to convey the richness of the tapestry, and its significance, I shall confine myself instead to drawing your attention to just a few of the threads running through it, and say a little about why I think these threads worth pursuing.
The universe was put into equations the way the history of France was put into madrigals.
Maeterlinck
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Wilk, J. (1999). Mind, Nature and the Emerging Science of Change: An Introduction to Metamorphology. In: Cornelis, G.C., Smets, S., Van Bendegem, J.P. (eds) Metadebates on Science. EINSTEIN MEETS MAGRITTE: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2245-2_6
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