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- Mitchell, M. Complexity - A Guided Tour (2009)
- on the history and content of four subject areas that are fundamental to the study of complex systems:
- Ellis, george F.R., On the nature of causation in complex systems (2008)
- ld). Recognising these forms of causation implies that other kinds of causes than physical and chemical ... to occur without violation of physical causation. That they do indeed occur is indicated by many kinds o
- Flack, Jessica, Coarse graining as a downward causation mechanism (2017)
- 338 Downward causation is the controversial idea that ‘higher’ levels of organization can causally infl... at ‘lower’ levels of organization. Here I propose that we can gain traction on downward causation by bei... these regularities to guide behaviour. I suggest that in many adaptive systems components collectively
- Flack, Jessica, Life’s Information Theory (2017)
- er to Life – Information and Causality I propose that biological systems are information hierarchies or... tem components in their search for configurations that reduce environmental uncertainty. If this view is... on from data, construction of stochastic circuits that map micro to macro, dimensionreduction techniques
- Geoghegan, B. D, From Information Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss, and the Cybernetic Apparatus (2011)
- ss set about overturning the centuries-old belief that European scientific and technical reasoning, ... ed into a discrete series of signals and messages that invite our recognition and interpretation. In tr... microscopes//” (SM,p.268). Lévi-Strauss explained that after centuries of division be- tween civilized a... nd specialized community of engineers. How is it that the father of French structuralism came to celebr
- Lafontaine C, The Cybernetic Matrix of `French Theory' (2007)
- postwar context, we intend to remind the audience that many soft science specialists were involved in th... obson and Claude Lévi-Strauss, we will illustrate that structural phonology is directly inspired by disc... to this paradigm. We will also insist on the fact that the philosophy of Jean- François Lyotard’s La Con
- Dodig-Crnkovic, G. Where Do New Ideas Come From? How Do They Emerge? Epistemology as Computation (2007)
- om]] This essay presents arguments for the claim that in the best of all possible worlds (Leibniz) ther... ological ideas come from? How do they emerge?” is that they come from the world and emerge from basic ph... ystem. For the universe at large it is randomness that is the source of unpredictability on the fundamen... here are incompressible truths which means truths that cannot be computed by any other computer but the
- Bryant L, Diference and Givenness (2008)
- diversity. Diversity is given, but difference is that by which the given is given, that by which the given is given as diverse.\\ -Gilles Deleuze, Difference... etzsche, or Bergson. I do not seek to demonstrate that Deleuze is really a Bergsonian vitalist in disgui... of Sense. In what follows I seek to demonstrate that Deleuze's transcenden tal empiricism attempts to
- Faucher K X, Metastasis and Metastability. A Deleuzian Approach to Information (2013)
- mation, differing to the degree and effectiveness that they might elect answer the ontological question ... excluded in the definition. This is not an issue that will be settled in its entirety any time soon, no... l exploration. I am generally suspicious of terms that achieve definitional consensus too soon since it ... nsideration, leading in part to a crystallization that owes more to discursive agendas than to a more si
- Iliadis, A. Informational Ontology: The Meaning of Gilbert Simondon’s Concept of Individuation (2013)
- hat I call an “informational ontology,” a subject that deserves to be addresses at length. This article ... formational ontology, a radically new materialism that stands to change contemporary debates surrounding
- Unger, R., Smolin, L. The singular universe and the reality of time: a proposal in natural philosophy (2015)
- e universe is one of the two most ambitious tasks that thought can undertake. Nothing matches it in ambi... ch it easily deceives itself into claiming powers that it lacks. Yet we cannot cast this topic aside. ... its history. The most important such discovery is that the universe has a history. Part of the task is t
- Iliadis, A., Philosophy of Information: An Introduction (2013)
- . Philosophy of Information (PI) proponents think that Gates has a point – but this doesn’t mean we shou... refines the new ideas, theories, and perspectives that we need to understand and address these important problems that press us so urgently. Of course, this naturally i
- Levy, P. The semantic sphere 1 : computation, cognition, and information economy (2011)
- ow to turn the digital medium into an observatory that reflects our collective intelligence. The prima... nformed public a new system for encoding meanings that will allow operations on meaning in the new digit... uage). Its use could help eliminate the obstacles that now impede the optimal exploitation of the digita
- Meillassoux, Q. Potentiality and Virtuality (2011)
- nstants? ’ A lack of necessity would not en- tail that constants change, but rather that it is entirely contingent whether they stay the same or not. Once suc... ts not change at every moment? Meillassoux argues that this apparent paradox is contingent upon the acce... rse. It is on the basis of this Cantorian advance that Meillassoux sets forth a fundamental distinction
- Braver, L., A Thing of This World. A history of Continental Anti-Realism. (2007)
- the mind until there was no longer a there there, that is, not even a substantial mind to be emptied. Fa... m being rationally justifiable, Hume demonstrated that most of our beliefs are determined by an arational reflex, a process that has roughly the epistemological status of digesti... **Copernican Revolution**: the epoch-making claim that the mind actively processes or organizes experien