The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

 

20. Self-organization and the Science of Emergence

  1. The Origin of Order
  2. Design Without a Designer
  3. Chaos and Complexity
  4. Holarchies
  5. Hierarchies from Complexity
  6. General Systems Theory
  7. Synergetics
  8. Hypercycles
  9. Autonomous Systems
  10. A Science of Prisms
  11. Dissipative Systems
  12. Catastrophe Theory
  13. The Origin of Regularity
  14. Simplexity and complicity
  15. The Edge of Chaos
  16. Complex Systems
  17. Chaos as the Creator
  18. Synchronized Oscillators
  19. The Emergence of a Science of Emergence

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Bak, Per: HOW NATURE WORKS (Copernicus, 1999)

Buchler, Justus: METAPHYSICS OF NATURAL COMPLEXES (Columbia University Press, 1966)

Bunge Mario: TREATISE ON BASIC PHILOSOPHY (Reidel, 1974-83)

Cohen, Jack & Steward Ian: THE COLLAPSE OF CHAOS (Viking, 1994)

Coveney, Peter: FRONTIERS OF COMPLEXITY (Fawcett, 1995)

Dalenoort G.J.: THE PARADIGM OF SELF-ORGANIZATION (Gordon & Breach, 1989)

Dalenoort G.J.: THE PARADIGM OF SELF-ORGANIZATION II (Gordon & Breach, 1994)

Davies, Paul: GOD AND THE NEW PHYSICS (Penguin, 1982)

Eigen, Manfred & Schuster Peter: THE HYPERCYCLE (Springer Verlag, 1979)

Forrest, Stephanie: EMERGENT COMPUTATION (MIT Press, 1991)

Fuller, Buckminster: SYNERGETICS (Macmillan, 1975)

Fuller, Buckminster: COSMOGRAPHY ( Macmillan, 1992)

Gell-Mann, Murray: THE QUARK AND THE JAGUAR (W.H.Freeman, 1994)

Gleick, James: CHAOS (Viking, 1987)

Goldberg, David: GENETIC ALGORITHMS (Addison Wesley, 1989)

Haken, Hermann: SYNERGETICS (Springer-Verlag, 1977)

Kauffman, Stuart: THE ORIGINS OF ORDER (Oxford University Press, 1993)

Kauffman, Stuart: AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE (Oxford Univ Press, 1995)

Koestler, Arthur: THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE (Henry Regnery, 1967)

Kuramoto, Yoshiki: CHEMICAL OSCILLATIONS, WAVES, AND TURBULENCE (Springer-Verlag, 1984)

Langton, Christopher: ARTIFICIAL LIFE (Addison-Wesley, 1989)

Laszlo, Ervin: INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY (Gordon & Breach, 1972)

Lewin, Roger: COMPLEXITY (Macmillan, 1992)

Lyapounov, Aleksander: The General Problem of the Stability of Motion (1892)

Mandelbrot, Benoit: THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF NATURE (W.H.Freeman, 1982)

Nicolis, Gregoire & Prigogine Ilya: SELF-ORGANIZATION IN NON-EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS (Wiley, 1977)

Nicolis, Gregoire & Prigogine Ilya: EXPLORING COMPLEXITY (W.H.Freeman, 1989)

Nicolis, Gregoire: INTRODUCTION TO NONLINEAR SCIENCE (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

Pattee, Howard: HIERARCHY THEORY (Braziller, 1973)

Prigogine, Ilya: INTRODUCTION TO THERMODYNAMICS OF IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES (Interscience Publishers, 1961)

Prigogine, Ilya: NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS (Interscience Publishers, 1962)

Prigogine, Ilya & Stengers Isabelle: ORDER OUT OF CHAOS (Bantham, 1984)

Salthe, Stanley: EVOLVING HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS (Columbia University Press, 1985)

Salthe, Stanley: DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION (MIT Press, 1993)

Strogatz, Steven: SYNC (Hyperion, 2003)

Thom, Rene': MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF MORPHOGENESIS (Horwood, 1983)

Thom, Rene': STRUCTURAL STABILITY AND MORPHOGENESIS (Benjamin, 1975)

Toffoli, Tommaso & Margolus, Norman: CELLULAR AUTOMATA MACHINES (MIT Press, 1987)

Varela, Francisco: PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGICAL AUTONOMY (North Holland, 1979)

Von Bertalanffy, Ludwig: GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY (Braziller, 1968)

Weiss, Paul: THE SCIENCE OF LIFE (1973)

Waldrop, Mitchell: COMPLEXITY (Simon & Schuster, 1992)

Winfree, Arthur: THE GEOMETRY OF BIOLOGICAL TIME (Springer-Verlag, 1980)

Wiener, Norbert: NONLINEAR PROBLEMS IN RANDOM THEORY (MIT Press, 1958)

Zeeman, Erich-Christian: CATASTROPHE THEORY  (Addison-Wesley, 1977)