Emerging Syntheses in Science: Proceedings of the Founding Workshops of the Santa Fe Institute Santa Fe, New Mexico

ISBN-13: 9780367320454 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

David Pines

Opis

The Santa Fe Institute, as key element in its founding activities, sponsored two workshops on 'Emerging Syntheses in Science.' There was unanimous agreement among the participants that Professor Gell-Mann's keynote address and the ensuing talks were of such high quality and general interest that it would be highly desirable to publish these for bro

Spis treści

"Foreword -- The Concept of the Institute 1 -- Spin Glass Hamiltonians: A Bridge Between Biology, Statistical Mechanics and Computer Science -- Macromolecular Evolution: Dynamical Ordering in Sequence Space -- Evolutionary Theory of Genotypes and Phenotypes: Towards a Mathematical Synthesis 1 -- Prospects for a Synthesis in the Human Behavioral Sciences -- The Emergence of Evolutionary Psychology -- War in Evolutionary Perspective -- The Relationship of Modern Archeology to Other Disciplines -- Reconstructing the Past through Chemistry -- The Conscious and Unconscious Stream of Thought -- Emerging Syntheses in Science: Conscious and Unconscious Processes -- Brain Mechanisms Underlying Visual Hallucinations -- Solitons in Biological Molecules 1 -- The New Biology and its Human Implications -- Biomolecules -- Computing With Attractors: From Self-repairing Computers, to Ultradiffusion, and the Application of Dynamical Systems to Human Behavior -- Fundamental Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy -- Complex Systems Theory 1 -- Mathematics and the Sciences -- Applications of Mathematics to Theoretical Computer Science -- Linguistics and Computing -- Dissipation, Information, Computational Complexity and the Definition of Organization -- Plans for the Future"

O autorze

David Pines is research professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has made pioneering contributions to an understanding of many-body problems in condensed matter and nuclear physics, and to theoretical astrophysics. Editor of Perseus' Frontiers in Physics series and former editor of American Physical Society's Reviews of Modern Physics, Dr. Pines is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Pines has received a number of awards, including the Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal for Contributions to Many-Body Theory; the P.A.M. Dirac Silver Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics; and the Friemann Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.