Complexity and the arrow of time /
There is a widespread assumption that the universe in general, and life in particular, is 'getting more complex with time'. This book brings together a wide range of experts in science, philosophy and theology and unveils their joint effort in exploring this idea. They confront essential p...
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Table of Contents:
- What is complexity? Is it increasing? / Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C.W. Davies, and Michael Ruse
- Directionality principles from cancer to cosmology / Paul C.W. Davies
- A simple treatment of complexity : cosmological entropic boundary conditions on increasing complexity / Charles H. Lineweaver
- Using complexity science to search for unity in the natural sciences / Eric J. Chaisson
- On the spontaneous generation of complexity in the universe / Seth Lloyd
- Emergent spatiotemporal complexity in field theory / Marcelo Gleiser
- Life : the final frontier for complexity? / Simon Conway Morris
- Evolution beyond Newton, Darwin, and entailing law : the origin of complexity in the evolving biosphere / Stuart A. Kauffman
- Emergent order in processes : the interplay of complexity, robustness, correlation, and hierarchy in the biosphere / D. Eric Smith
- The inferential evolution of biological complexity : forgetting nature by learning to nurture / David C. Krakauer
- Information width : a way for the second law to increase complexity / David H. Wolpert
- Wrestling with biological complexity : from Darwin to Dawkins / Michael Ruse
- The role of generative entrenchment and robustness in the evolution of complexity / William C. Wimsatt
- On the plurality of complexity-producing mechanisms / Philip Clayton.
