Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is the only book which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones. The culmination of the book is the proposition of research to discover and understand the natural underlying level of...
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This is the only book which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones. The culmination of the book is the proposition of research to discover and understand the natural underlying level of organization which produces the descriptive commonality of life and physics. Traditional science eliminates life from its purview by its rejection of interrelationships as a primary content of systems. The conventional procedure of science is that of reductionism, whereby complex systems are dismantled to characterize lower level components, but virtually no attention is given to how to rebuild those systems-the underlying assumption is that analysis and synthesis are symmetrical. This book fulfills two main coupled functions. Firstly, it details hierarchy as the major formulation of natural complex systems and investigates the fundamental character of natural hierarchy as a widely transferable 'container' of structure and/or function - and this in the case of the new development of a representational or model hierarchy. Secondly, it couples this hierarchical description to that of the electronic properties of semiconductors, as a well-modeled canonical example of physical properties. The central thesis is that these two descriptions are comparable, if care is taken to treat logical and epistemological aspects with prudence: a large part of the book is composed of just this aspect of care for grounding consistency. As such great attention is given to correct assessment of argumentative features which are otherwise presumed 'known' but which are usually left uncertain. Development of the ideas is always based on a relationship between entity or phenomenon and their associated ecosystems, and this applies equally well to the consequent derivations of consciousness and information.
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000 Preface00 Foreword
0 Contents
1 Setting the Stage Introduction to the area of work. Specifically addressing briefly, the following: Universal analysis versus synthesis in conventional science Determinism and complexity Logic and rule-based argument Complementarity and visualizability Modelling and machines Raison d'être of the following chapters
2 Opening the Curtains Setting out the initial conditions for the work. Specifically addressing: Collections and sets, the difference between them and whether their contents are externally accessible Logic and rationality, as the terms will be used here: Brenner's Logic In Reality and its relevance Systems and their general properties Probability: classical versus Dempster-Shafer probability
3 Partial Everything The concept of Universal existence as partially-defined quasi-quantum particles. Analogue and digital with respect to transfer functions Complexity and the relevance of Robert Rosen's description of complexity Approximation in the analogue and digital domains The overriding nature of partiality in existence and definition
4 Just In Time Computation as a descriptive device 'Just In Time' reactivity in living systems Conventional versus chaotic computation Data versus information Computational partitioning Phase spaces and their importance Mathematics and time in living systems
5 A Fishy Business Query-reflection computational processing Development of a multiply-reactive computational model 'AQUARIUM' as a query-reflection processor The inclusion of new data and computational 'sleep-time' Query propagation slowdown and the computational barrier Representation in AQUARIUM of an organism
6 And Yet It Moves Modelling living systems and previous models directly relevant to this work Static and dynamic aspects of life Robert Rosen's (M,R) systems One gene, one protein, one level of organization? Redrawing Robert Rosen's (M,R) model Maturana and Varela's autopoietic systems James Grier Miller's book Living
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Systems Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis's operator hierarchy Ehresmann & Vanbremeerschs' memory evolutive neural systems (MENS) Thomas Sebeok and Thure von Uexkülls' approach to biosemiotics Chris Langton's 'life at the edge of chaos'
7 Seeing the Wood... ... for the trees Introduction to the concept of scaleIvan Havel's concept of scale Tree-structures and their problems Hierarchy in its traditional context Model hierarchy as the parent of traditional definitions of hierarchy Emergence and slaving in a model hierarchy Complex regions of a model hierarchy Inter-level transit and quantum error correction
8 Two's Company Complementarity Complementary duality Hierarchical duality Generalized emergence Birationality Birationality in models, paradigms and logic
9 Really Reality Duality again: in entropy and life Birationality again and entity-ecosystem modelling Model hierarchy and Rosen's (M,R) systems A modified approach to reality
10 Under the Hood Abstraction in modelling Top-down or bottom-up? Entity-ecosystem rationality pairs Embodiment of living systems Using Robert Rosen's (M,R) systems in a model hierarchy
11 Thinking Things Hyperscale in living systems Dual hyperscale in a model hierarchy Metascale in living systems Intelligence, sapience and wisdom
12 Making a Difference Ivan Havel's categories of reality Charles Peirce's categories of experience The derivation of information Information in less-than-hierarchical systems External sources in setting up information
13 Two into One The neural implications of birational hierarchy Neural hemispheres and the corpus calossum Karl Pribram and complementarity in neural processing Fear-learning as a multiple processing strategy Sleep and AQUARIUM
14 Mind Matters Relating together energy, awareness and consciousness Awareness versus consciousness and David Bohm From awareness to consciousness Energy and awareness Stasis-neglect and habituation A birational derivation of consciousness 'Unconscious' awarenesses? Coda: dual consciousness after corpus calossum sectioning
15 Bridging the Gap Bridging the gap between life and physics Solid state physics as a useful exemplar Crystal-like appearances in biomolecules Electron properties in the solid state: the Kronig-Penney model Electron band structure as a hierarchy of states Linking life and physics in terms of hierarchy Cross-modelling between life and physics Scales versus Brillouin zones
16 Closing the Curtains Summary of the journey through the book Conclusions and prospective
References
Acknowledgements
Index
7 Seeing the Wood... ... for the trees Introduction to the concept of scaleIvan Havel's concept of scale Tree-structures and their problems Hierarchy in its traditional context Model hierarchy as the parent of traditional definitions of hierarchy Emergence and slaving in a model hierarchy Complex regions of a model hierarchy Inter-level transit and quantum error correction
8 Two's Company Complementarity Complementary duality Hierarchical duality Generalized emergence Birationality Birationality in models, paradigms and logic
9 Really Reality Duality again: in entropy and life Birationality again and entity-ecosystem modelling Model hierarchy and Rosen's (M,R) systems A modified approach to reality
10 Under the Hood Abstraction in modelling Top-down or bottom-up? Entity-ecosystem rationality pairs Embodiment of living systems Using Robert Rosen's (M,R) systems in a model hierarchy
11 Thinking Things Hyperscale in living systems Dual hyperscale in a model hierarchy Metascale in living systems Intelligence, sapience and wisdom
12 Making a Difference Ivan Havel's categories of reality Charles Peirce's categories of experience The derivation of information Information in less-than-hierarchical systems External sources in setting up information
13 Two into One The neural implications of birational hierarchy Neural hemispheres and the corpus calossum Karl Pribram and complementarity in neural processing Fear-learning as a multiple processing strategy Sleep and AQUARIUM
14 Mind Matters Relating together energy, awareness and consciousness Awareness versus consciousness and David Bohm From awareness to consciousness Energy and awareness Stasis-neglect and habituation A birational derivation of consciousness 'Unconscious' awarenesses? Coda: dual consciousness after corpus calossum sectioning
15 Bridging the Gap Bridging the gap between life and physics Solid state physics as a useful exemplar Crystal-like appearances in biomolecules Electron properties in the solid state: the Kronig-Penney model Electron band structure as a hierarchy of states Linking life and physics in terms of hierarchy Cross-modelling between life and physics Scales versus Brillouin zones
16 Closing the Curtains Summary of the journey through the book Conclusions and prospective
References
Acknowledgements
Index
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Autoren-Porträt von Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson
Ron Cottam grew up in Cheshire, in the north-west of England. At school he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, and went on to gain a bachelor's degree in applied physics and electronics and a PhD in the acoustic physics of II-VI and III-V compounds at the University of Durham, UK. He was invited to the University of Leuven in 1972 to start a new research activity in shape-memory alloy ultrasonics, and in 1976 became responsible for the music-recording facility in HiFi Home, Brugge. He established Sound Stuff - a study bureau in acoustics and music recording facility - in 1979, and worked as an independent in recording-studio design and recorded-music production until he joined the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1983. From 1984 until the 2011 he has been 'campus medewerker' for the microelectronics R&D company IMEC vzw in ETRO, working on chemical sensors, integrated optical components, and most recently as leader of the Living Systems Project in the LAMI laboratory of ETRO. He currently continues research work in the Living Systems Project at the VUB as 'vrijwillige medewerker'. Ron has an impressive publication record (see attached).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Ron Cottam , Willy Ranson
- 2018, 1st ed. 2017, XVIII, 338 Seiten, 3 farbige Abbildungen, Masse: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319745328
- ISBN-13: 9783319745329
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.04.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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