The Evolution of Complexity

The Violet Book of `Einstein Meets Magritte'

By: Francis Heylighen (Editor), Johan Bollen (Editor), Alexander Riegler (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 August 1999

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The Evolution of Complexity is addressed to a broad audience of academics and researchers from different disciplines, who are interested in the picture of our world emerging from the new sciences of complexity. This book reviews the new concepts proposed by the diverse theories of evolution, self-organisation, general systems, cybernetics, and the `complex adaptive systems' approach pioneered by the Santa Fe institute. The thread which holds everything together is the growth of complexity during the history of the universe: from elementary particles, via atoms, molecules, living cells, multicellular organisms, plants, and animals to human beings, and societies. The different sections of the book discuss the foundations and philosophy of complexity evolution, its mathematical and computer models, its explanation of self-organising and living systems, the insights it provides into the origin of mind, language and culture, and its practical applications in areas such as management and system design.

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General Introduction
Editorial Introduction: The Evolution of Complexity
What Is Complexity? - The Philosophy of Complexity per se with Application to Some Examples in Evolution	p. 1
The Growth of Structural and Functional Complexity during Evolution	p. 17
Involution: On the Structure and Process of Existence	p. 45
Organization in the Universe	p. 59
Physical Models of Biological Evolution	p. 89
Logistic Evolution of Information on Earth	p. 99
Diversity and Complexity: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	p. 117
Chaos in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science: Similarities and Dissimilarities	p. 125
Reduction of Language Hierarchies by Metacomputation	p. 129
Eigenmechanism - An Explanatory Principle and an Artful Exemplar	p. 141
Forgetting in Self-Organising Systems	p. 157
Invertibility and the Evolution of Complex Systems	p. 169
Lest We Forget Our Inheritance	p. 187
Mind as Evolution and Evolution as Such	p. 201
The Evolution of Complexity in the Evolution of Language: Grammaticalization, Pidgin Languages, and Language Acquisition	p. 221
Memetics: On a Conceptual Framework for Cultural Evolution	p. 229
Parasite Ecology and the Evolution of Religion	p. 255
Innovation, Increasing Complexity and the Need for a New Paradigm in Economics	p. 263
The Use of Complex Adaptive Systems in Organizational Studies	p. 281
Responsive Accounting: A Grounding of the Informational Domain in the Operational Domain of an Organisation	p. 307
Application of Complexity Theories to Evolutionary Systems Development	p. 327
Cognitive Complexity vs. Connectivity: Efficiency Analyses of Hypertext Networks	p. 345
Index	p. 369
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