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Taschenbuch: 512 Seiten
Verlag: Penguin (Non-Classics); Auflage: Reprint (1. April 1995)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0140178740
ISBN-13: 978-0140178746
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,8 x 2,3 cm

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One step onto this ontological escalator with British biologist Cohen and British mathematician Stewart ( Does God Play Dice? ) and readers will zoom right to the metaphysical floor, where science displays its most basic assumptions. In the last 10 years, scientific thought has been marked by frequent paradigm shifts--from classical laws to chaos theory and complexity. In the first half of this book, the authors attempt to review the quantum world for general readers, an effort that is frequently undercut by their playful approach, e.g., a conversation about the organization of development between Augusta Ada, Lord Byron's daughter and "a founding figure in computer science," and Wallace Lupert, a fictitious modern biologist. Moving on to examine the basis for a belief in simplicity, they introduce two new concepts: simplexity and complicity. The former refers to the tendency of a simpler order to emerge from complexity, the latter is a kind of interaction between coevolving systems that supports a tendency toward complexity. The authors, hoping to challenge orthodoxy and to stimulate thought, confound rather than clarify.
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The ironic title doesn't announce the end of whirls, eddies, and physical uncertainty but

rather the end of a scientific outlook: reductionism. Cohen and Stewart explain their objections to it but concede that reducing behavior to the interactions of the smallest entity has brought forth great advances in biology, chemistry, and physics. They believe, however, that its potential is exhausted and here propound their iconoclastic ideas for thinking about complexity. Both are populists--Cohen is a British TV commentator on biology, Stewart a Scientific American columnist on math--and so write in a practiced idiom for nonexperts. They go so far as to write sf-like interludes from the planet Zarathustra to illustrate the tricks that reductionism plays on perception. But in the main, they proffer myriad examples, drawn mainly from biology, purporting to convince readers that "bottom-up" views are ultimately spurious (for example, the popular notion that DNA is a "blueprint" for every detail of life) and should be replaced by concepts of "simplexity" and "complicity." It seems rather easier to follow a single atom around than the features and systems the authors throw out, but it is such rebels who keep honest the prevailing epistemology of science. Gilbert Taylor -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Modern Science 101 - a readable, eye-opening survey course, 15. M�rz 1997

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In their preface, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart describe this book as "a streamlined introduction to the central preoccupations of modern science." The concepts of chaos, complexity, and simplicity are central to the book; they are presented without jargon and with marvelous analogies and examples. Much of the discussion of complexity focuses on life, especially human life and human intelligence. An especially useful concept they introduce is the "brain pun," the human brain's tendency to see similarity (bird wings and bat wings) and infer causality or relationship.

This book is remarkable in how much it teaches the intelligent layperson. For example, frog DNA is more complicated than ours because it incorporates so many instructions to the tadpole on how to mature under a wide range of temperature conditions. Human embryos don't need an instruction book with a huge chapter entitled "Coping with Temperature Changes," because we initially grow in the marvelously temperature-controlled environment of the womb. Did you know that? I didn't.

Speaking of instruction books - Cohen and Stewart clearly show that the instruction book metaphor for DNA is flawed. Only a fraction of human DNA is meaningful; the rest is "junk." (Same for other species - it's life, not just us.) But junk DNA replicates, too. Also, for most species in the real world, a wide variety of gene patterns produce pretty much the same animal. Did you know any of this? I didn't.

This is an ideal book for the intelligent layperson whose taste runs to the "readable but accurate." At 443 pages plus notes in the paperback version, it's plenty long enough for a coast-to-coast flight, with some left over for the next day. Highly recommended; I can't wait to pass it on to friends.

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If you are one of those who used to read Asimov's or Arthur C. Clarke's "science fact" books get this book. You will especially enjoy it if you have an interest in evolution and/or to see the "tunnel vision" mistakes of people who are generally regarded as geniuses. I learned more in reading this book than ANY non classroom textbook and more than most classroom texts. And it's as easy to read as anything could be, considering the subject matter. You should have some background in science, or it might be a little tough to get through. All in all a great book.

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4.0 von 5 Sternen Nature's Systems Coevolve to Simplicity, 24. November 1997

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A starting quotation: " How exquisitely the individual mind is fitted to the external world and how exquisitely the external word is fitted to the mind". Is it the result of Interacting systems that coevolve together in a way that causes both to change in the fittest way, that indeed leads to a multifacceted change from starting simple sistems, to complex- contextual related ones? That is what means Complexity. Is it the collective behavoir of the system that transcends it's compounds, generating a whole inseparable in it's intergating parts? More than puntual particles, it are fields of interconection, that produce "Phase Changes" beyond the Physical-Chemical properties of it's parts. Non equilibrium becomes so to an order, it is a dynamical system of attractors, that keeps ever changing, modifying and adapting but by this way creating certainity and simplicity from an ever changing complexity. Chaos or Antichaos are the two sides of a Universal System that is a interconected Multisystem, that is so, in ways, similar to Our Mind's Inner and Outer Systems. To Create Simplicity on certain levels you need Complexity on other levels, but also a mixture of Complexity-Simplicity will arise in others. Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart bring us to the Institute of Simple Systems, because it is for the subdued simplicity in Chaos (it's collapse), what we are looking for, but for that we need to get some new way of questionig this Complex World.

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