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Title
  • Investigations / Stuart A. Kauffman.
Author
Kauffman, Stuart A.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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xii, 287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"A tour-de-force exploration of the very essence of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests; the approches of Newton, Boltzman, Boht and Einstein."--Cover.
Subject
  • Biological Evolution > philosophy
  • Evolution (Biology) > Philosophy
  • Evolution, Molecular > philosophy
  • Life > Philosophy
  • Molecular evolution > Philosophy
  • Self-organizing systems > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-272) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- Prolegomenon to a general biology -- Origins of life -- Autonomous agents -- Propagating organization -- Physics of semantics? -- Emergence and story : beyond Newton, Einstein, and Bohr? -- Nonergodic universe : the possibility of new laws -- Candidate laws for the coconstruction of a biosphere -- Persistently innovative econosphere -- Coconstructing cosmos? -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 0195121058
  • 019512104X (cloth : acid-free paper) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^^99055452^
OCLC
42752577
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library