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Combinatorics is a subject dealing with graphs, networks and ways of arranging distributed objects. Combinatorial optimization problems, network problems (find...
C. Lloyd Morgan was one of the first who mentioned the importance of "emergence" as a concept in evolutionary biology in his book "Emergent Evolution" (1923): ...
"Adaptation to the Edge of Chaos in the Self-Adjusting Logistic Map" Paul Melby, Jorg Kaidel, Nicholas Weber, Alfred Hubler Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5991 (2000) ...
Autopoiesis is a concept used to serve as an integrative characterization of the nature of living systems. The term was originally introduced by the Chilean...
Some things I thought and read while browsing the "J-Curve" blog of Steve Jurvetson at http://jurvetson.blogspot.com/ The parts about the child-like mind and ...
Evolution is able to invent and discover new things, because it seriously plays with species and individuals. Each new instance of a species in this serious...
One of my favorite episodes of "The Simpsons" is the alien episode "Citizen Kang" which ran during the 1996 election season and showed the abduction of Bill...
**** HEP-TH High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum gravity, effective fields and string theory Niels Emil Jannik Bjerrum-Bohr http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410097...
Christopher Barnatt emphasizes in his book "Challenging Reality: In Search of the Future Organization" (*) the importance of flexible "organic organizations"...
Quotes from Douglas Adams as he saw the world: "There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of...
[snip]'life', something that had a mysterious essence about it, ... And the state of Georgia - US, not Russia - would very much prefer this to be THE textbook...
Sven Gato Redsun from the FRIAM list discovered "disclaimer stickers for science textbooks" : http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/...
The Twenty-Eight Steps from "The Emergence of Everything - How the World Became Complex" Harold J. Morowitz, Oxford University Press, 2002 Morowitz lists...
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People say to me, "Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not... If it turns out there is a simple ultimate law which explains everything,...