This book focuses on the successes and difficulties of nonlinear studies, particularly in the areas of Mind Sciences. It attempts to answer the owing questions: is an interdisciplinary Contamination of complexity studies in different disciplines useful? Does this contamination originate in a transdisciplinary toolbox of methods and models which is worth calling it "Nonlinear Science"? What are the relations between the metaphoric approach and the mathematical approach in natural sciences and humanities? Complexity in the Life Sciences represents a fundamental workbench for these kinds of...

This book concerns the development of a theory of complex phenomena, using such concepts as fractals, chaos, and fractional derivatives; but, most important, the idea of an allometric control process is developed. In summary the theory attempts to explain why the distribution in the intensity of wars is the same as the relative frequency of the number of words used in languages and the number of species evolved over time from one or a few remote ancestors. The theory also describes the similarity in the variability of the number of births to teens in Texas to the number of sexual partners in...

This volume focuses on the modeling of cognition, and brings together contributions from psychologists and researchers in the field of cognitive science. The shared platform of this work is to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. Several aspects of this approach are considered here: chaos theory, artificial intelligence and Alife models, catastrophe theory and, most importantly, self-organization theory or synergetics. The application of nonlinear systems theory to cognitive science in general, and to cognitive psychology in particular, is a growing field that has gained...

This work applies complexity theory to cognitive science, and the result is a transformation of the field. It proposes a biophysical theory of human relations, attempting to expand all its implications (for research and theory). It presents the potential clinical applications of this theory in neuroscience and clinical psychology - a general theory of mind change.

The scientific paradigm implemented here is based on complexity science and presents a theoretical synthesis from different concurring sources. This book integrates the theory of mind force and human attractions descriptions of natural phenomena, research studies, statistical evidence and mathematical modeling.

This invaluable book captures the proceedings of a workshop that brought together a group of distinguished scientists from a variety of disciplines to discuss how networking influences decision making. The individual lectures interconnect psychological testing, the modeling of neuron networks and brain dynamics to the transport of information within and between complex networks. Of particular importance was the introduction of a new principle that governs how complex networks talk to one another the Principle of Complexity Management (PCM). PCM establishes that the transfer of information...

What is the physics of life and why does it matter? The essays in this book probe this question, combining modern biology with theoretical physics. It explores organic complexity and self-organization through research applications to such areas as embryology, cell biology and evolution.