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Title Crossing in complexity : interdisciplinary application of physics in biological and social systems / editors, Ignazio Licata, Ammar Sakaji
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, ©2010

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Contents CROSSING IN COMPLEXITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATION OF PHYSICS IN BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS ; CROSSING IN COMPLEXITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATION OF PHYSICS IN BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS ; CONTENTS ; FOREWORD ; LIVING WITH RADICAL UNCERTAINTY: THE EXEMPLARY CASE OF FOLDING PROTEIN ; Abstract ; 1. "ZIP Filing the World" ; 2. The Folding Problem ; 3. Radical Emergence: Pyrococcus Furiosus ; 4. Uncertainty's Fecundity: A Systemic Conclusion ; Acknowledgments ; References ; THE LIMITS OF ATOMISM: THE BOHM WAY OF A NEW ONTOLOGY ; Abstract ; Brief History of Atomism
Necessity of the New Ontology Philosophical Viewpoint from Substance to Function ; Process and the Cyclic Ontology ; Mathematical Formalism of Cyclic Ontology ; The Heisenberg Equation ; Conclusion ; References ; DOING MATHEMATICS ABOUT AND WITH THE BRAIN* ; Introduction ; Doing Mathematics about the Brain ; Hodgkin and Huxley ; Warren McCulloch ; Brains, Machines and Mathematics ; The Automata-Theoretic Approach to Brain Theory ; The Many Levels of Brain Analysis ; Below the Neuron ; Population Coding and the Ergodic Hypothesis ; Cooperative Computation in Neural Fields ; Regularization
Schema Theory Synthetic PET ; Space, The Final Frontier ; Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics ; Nonlinear Dynamic Systems ; Bringing in Plasticity: Hebbian, Error-Based and Reinforcement ; Bridging the Levels: From Behavior to Neurochemistry ; Self-Organization ; Brain Evolution ; From Brain to Mind: Psychology and Linguistics ; The Brain Doing Mathematics ; Against Platonism ; References ; PHYSICS OF LIFE FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES ; Abstract ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Dynamics with Liouville Feedback ; A. Destabilizing Effect of Liouville feedback ; B. Emergence of Randomness
C. Emergence of Entanglement D. Summary ; 3. From Disorder to Order ; A. Information Potential ; B. Negative Diffusion ; C. Drift ; D. Summary ; 4. Model of Livings ; A. General Model ; B. Simplified Model ; C. Invariant Formulation ; D. Variation Principle ; Remark ; E. Summary ; 5. Interpretation of the Model ; A. Mathematical Viewpoint ; B. Physical Viewpoint ; Ü. Superposition ; Ý. Entanglement ; Þ. Decoherence ; e. Uncertainty Principle ; C. Biological Viewpoint ; D. Psychological Viewpoint ; E. Neuro-Science Viewpoint ; Ý. Mystery of Mirror Neuron ; Þ. Mirror Neural Nets
e. Link to Quantum Entanglement F. Social and Economic Viewpoint ; G. Language Communications Viewpoint ; H. Summary ; 6. Complexity for Survival of Livings ; A. Measure of Survivability ; B. Mental Complexity via Reflection of Information ; C. Image Dynamics: What Do You Think I Think You Think ; D. Chain of Abstractions ; Ü. Attractors in Motor Dynamics ; Ý. Attractors in Mental Dynamics ; E. Hierarchy of Higher Mental Abstractions ; F. Abstraction and Survivability ; G. Activation of New Levels of Abstractions ; H. Summary ; 7. Intelligence in Livings ; A. Definition and General Remarks
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Protein folding -- Mathematical models
Biocomplexity -- Mathematical models
Laplace transformation.
Quantum theory.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
Laplace transformation
Protein folding -- Mathematical models
Quantum theory
Form Electronic book
Author Licata, Ignazio
Sakaji, Ammar
LC no. 2019714264
ISBN 9781612092980
1612092985