Complexification : explaining a paradoxical world through the science of surprise /
"Why does time seem to fly on some occasions and drag on others? Why do some societies seem more prone to totalitarianism than others? Why does atonal music sound "worse" to most of us than traditional music? How can a butterfly in Brazil affect the weather in Alaska? The set of ingen...
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New York :
HarperCollins,
c1994.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Simple and the Complex. Realities, Rules and Surprises: In the Beginning is the Wor(l)d ; Rules of Reality ; Patterns, Puzzles and Paradoxes ; It's All in the Motion
- 2. The Catastrophic. Intuition: Small, gradual changes in causes give rise to small, gradual changes in effects: Continuity and Common Sense ; The Fall of the Wall and the Collapse of a Beam ; The Magnificent Seven ; Physics and Metaphysics ; The Theater of the Absurd
- 3. The Chaotic. Intuition: Deterministic rules of behavior give rise to completely predictable events: Expecting the Unexpected ; Recipes for Randomness ; Statistically Speaking ; Bulls, Bears and Beer ; Computing the Cosmos
- 4. The Lawless. Intuition: All real-world truths are the logical outcome of following a set of rules: The Power of Paradox ; Reality Rules ; Magic Machines and Busy Beavers ; Truth Is Stranger Than Proof ; Out-Gödeling Gödel ; Real Brains, Artificial Minds ; Minds, Machines and Evolution
- 5. The Irreducible. Intuition: Complicated systems can always be understood by breaking them down into simpler parts: Getting It Together ; Making Connections ; The Time of Your Life ; Some Surprising Connections
- 6. The Emergent. Intuition: Surprising behavior results only from complicated, hard-to-understand interactions among a system's component parts: Checkerboard Computers ; That's Life? ; The Most Complicated Thing in the World ; From Bach to Rock and Bach Again ; Climbing the Devil's Staircase
- 7. The Simply Complex. On the Creation of a Science of Surprise: The Anatomy of Surprise ; "Complexification" ; The Science of Surprise.