At home in the universe

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"An important new argument." Cari Sagan, The Washington Post
A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivais Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and fall of great civilizations. And more than anyone else, this revolution is the work of one man, Stuart Kauffman, a MacArthur Fellow and visionary pioneer of the new science of complexity. Now, in At Home in the Universe, Kauffman brilliantly weaves together the excitement of intellectual discovery and a fertile mix of insights to give the general reader a fascinating look at this new science—and at the forces for order that lie at the edge of chaos.
What we are now only discovering, Kauffman says, is that the range of spon-taneous order is enormously greater than we had supposed and, in fact, self-organization is a great undiscovered... Tovább

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SCIENCE
"An important new argument." Cari Sagan, The Washington Post
A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivais Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and fall of great civilizations. And more than anyone else, this revolution is the work of one man, Stuart Kauffman, a MacArthur Fellow and visionary pioneer of the new science of complexity. Now, in At Home in the Universe, Kauffman brilliantly weaves together the excitement of intellectual discovery and a fertile mix of insights to give the general reader a fascinating look at this new science—and at the forces for order that lie at the edge of chaos.
What we are now only discovering, Kauffman says, is that the range of spon-taneous order is enormously greater than we had supposed and, in fact, self-organization is a great undiscovered principie of nature. He contends that complexity itself triggers self-organization—what Kauffman calis "order for free"—and that if enough différent molecules pass a certain threshold of complexity, they begin to self-organize into a new entity: a living cell. In tum, Kauffman extends this new paradigm to economic and cultural systems, showing that ali may evolve according to similar general laws.
An exciting exploration into the nature of life, At Home in the Universe provides stunning insights into a new scientific revolution. Vissza