Self-organization and Emergence in Life Sciences

By: Bernard Feltz (Editor), Marc Crommelinck (Editor), Philippe Goujon (Editor)

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Hardcover | 13 January 2006

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Self-organization constitutes one of the most important theoretical debates in contemporary life sciences. The present book explores the relevance of the concept of self-organization and its impact on such scientific fields as: immunology, neurosciences, ecology and theories of evolution.

Historical aspects of the issue are also broached. Intuitions relative to self-organization can be found in the works of such key western philosophical figures as Aristotle, Leibniz and Kant. Interacting with more recent authors and cybernetics, self-organization represents a notion in keeping with the modern world's discovery of radical complexity.

The themes of teleology and emergence are analyzed by philosophers of sciences with regards to the issues of modelization and scientific explanation.

The implications of self-organization for life sciences are here approached from an interdisciplinary angle, revealing the notion as already rewarding and full of promise for the future.

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The complex adaptative systems approach to biology	p. 7
Emergence and reductionism : from the game of life to science of life	p. 29
Formalizing emergence : the natural after-life of artificial life	p. 41
Analysis and synthesis of regulator networks in terms of feedback circuits	p. 63
Properties emerging from sensorimotor interfaces : interaction between experimentation and modeling in neurosciences	p. 75
Neuronal synchrony and cognitive functions	p. 95
About biology and subjectivity in psychiatry	p. 109
Self-organization and meaning in immunology	p. 121
Kant and the intuitions of self-organization	p. 143
On a "mathematical neo-Aristotelism" in Leibniz	p. 163
"Essential force" and "formative force" : models for epigenesis in the 18[superscript th] century	p. 171
From logic to self-organization-learning about complexity	p. 187
The concept of emergence in the XIX[superscript th] century : from natural theology to biology	p. 215
Artificial life and the sciences of complexity : history and future	p. 227
Self-organization in second-order cybernetics : deconstruction or reconstruction of complexity	p. 249
Teleology in self-organizing systems	p. 267
Phenomenology and self-organization	p. 283
A role for mathematical models in formalizing self-organizing systems	p. 301
Explanation and causality in self-organizing systems	p. 313
Self-organization, selection and emergence in the theories of evolution	p. 341
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