Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics

✍ Scribed by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 342
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Setting the Stage (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 1-21
Opening the Curtains (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 23-44
Partial Everything (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 45-56
Just in Time (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 57-74
A Fishy Business (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 75-101
And Yet It Moves (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 103-133
Seeing the Wood… (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 135-161
Two’s Company (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 163-184
Really Reality? (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 185-195
Under the Hood (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 197-207
Thinking Things (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 209-225
Making a Difference (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 227-234
Two into One (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 235-246
Mind Matters (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 247-269
Bridging the Gap (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 271-293
Seeing Beyond the Curtains (Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson)....Pages 295-306
Back Matter ....Pages 307-338

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences; Ecosystems; Science, multidisciplinary; Epistemology; Theory of Computation; Solid State Physics

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