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The Evolution of Complexity: The Violet Book of `Einstein Meets Magritte' (Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society) (Vol 8) [Hardcover]

Francis Heylighen (Editor), Johan Bollen (Editor), Alexander Riegler (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0792357647 | ISBN-13: 978-0792357643 | Publication Date: August 31, 1999 | Edition: 1

The Evolution of Complexity is addressed to a broad audience of academics and researchers from different disciplines, who are interested in the picture of our world emerging from the new sciences of complexity. This book reviews the new concepts proposed by the diverse theories of evolution, self-organisation, general systems, cybernetics, and the `complex adaptive systems' approach pioneered by the Santa Fe institute. The thread which holds everything together is the growth of complexity during the history of the universe: from elementary particles, via atoms, molecules, living cells, multicellular organisms, plants, and animals to human beings, and societies. The different sections of the book discuss the foundations and philosophy of complexity evolution, its mathematical and computer models, its explanation of self-organising and living systems, the insights it provides into the origin of mind, language and culture, and its practical applications in areas such as management and system design.

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Hardcover: 392 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 31, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0792357647
ISBN-13: 978-0792357643
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The label of "complexity" often performs much the same role as that of the name of a desirable residential area in Estate Agent's advertisements. Read the first page

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contacted node, preservative component, ontogenetic adaptation, hypertext networks, informational domain, consensual domain, operational domain, situational complexity, neural activity pattern, analytic complexity, hypertext page, language hierarchies, organisational complexity, language hierarchy, structural coupling, organisational performance, waterfall model, quantum structures

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New York, Mao Zedong, Chicago Press, Scientific American, John Wiley, New Haven, Redwood City, San Francisco, David Hull, Frank Tipler, Perganion Press, University of Humberside

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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins on 4 pages
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann in Front Matter, page 57, and page 113
Tree of Knowledge by Humberto R. Maturana on page 155, page 185, and page 326
Introduction to Cybernetics (University Paperbacks) by William Ross Ashby in Front Matter, page 15, and page 184
Laws of Form by Spencer-Brown on page 160, and page 325

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