chapter 1 Time in the Classical and Medieval Worldviews From the Beginnings to the Pre-Socratic School Zeno's Time Arrow and Aristotle's Continuum 6 Time and Creation According to Saint Augustine 15 Time and Medieval Astronomy 18 20 Calendars and Clocks chapter 2 Time in the Worldview of Classical Physics 25 Absolute Time According to Newton 26 Relational Time According to Leibniz 30 Time in Classical Mechanics 31 Time in Kant's Epistemology 35 chapter 3 Relativistic Spacetime 43 Time in Special Relativity Theory 44 Time in General Relativity Theory 50 Time in Relativistic Cosmology 54...
chapter 1 Time in the Classical and Medieval Worldviews From the Beginnings to the Pre-Socratic School Zeno's Time Arrow and Aristotle's Continuum 6 T...
Das Buch gibt einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Grundlagen virtueller Netzwelten. Computergest tzte Informations- und Kommunikationsnetze sind die treibenden Kr fte einer Entwicklung zur Wissensgesellschaft. Sie erzeugen virtuelle Netzwelten, in denen wir unser Wissen speichern, Innovationen planen, Gesch fte t tigen, Kunst und Unterhaltung suchen. Wie ver ndern sich dadurch Forschung und Lehre in Technik, Natur-, Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften? Was hei t virtuelles Leben und Biocomputing? Wissensmanagement in komplexen Netzen bedarf der Hilfe autonomer, mobiler und...
Das Buch gibt einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Grundlagen virtueller Netzwelten. Computergest tzte Informations- und Kommunikationsnetze sind die ...
Cosmic evolution leads from symmetry to complexity by symmetry breaking and phase transitions. The emergence of new order and structure in nature and society is explained by physical, chemical, biological, social and economic self-organization, according to the laws of nonlinear dynamics. All these dynamical systems are considered computational systems processing information and entropy. Are symmetry and complexity only useful models of science or are they universals of reality? Symmetry and Complexity discusses the fascinating insights gained from natural, social and computer sciences,...
Cosmic evolution leads from symmetry to complexity by symmetry breaking and phase transitions. The emergence of new order and structure in nature and ...
The theory of nonlinear, complex systems has become by now a proven problem-solving approach in the natural sciences. And it is now also recognized that many if not most of our social, ecological, economical and political problems are essentially of a global, complex and nonlinear nature. And it is now further accepted than any holistic perspective of the human mind and brain can hardly be achieved by any other approach. In this wide-ranging, scholarly but very concise treatment, physicist, computer scientist and philosopher Klaus Mainzer discusses, in essentially nontechnical language,...
The theory of nonlinear, complex systems has become by now a proven problem-solving approach in the natural sciences. And it is now also recognized...
chapter 1 Time in the Classical and Medieval Worldviews From the Beginnings to the Pre-Socratic School Zeno's Time Arrow and Aristotle's Continuum 6 Time and Creation According to Saint Augustine 15 Time and Medieval Astronomy 18 20 Calendars and Clocks chapter 2 Time in the Worldview of Classical Physics 25 Absolute Time According to Newton 26 Relational Time According to Leibniz 30 Time in Classical Mechanics 31 Time in Kant's Epistemology 35 chapter 3 Relativistic Spacetime 43 Time in Special Relativity Theory 44 Time in General Relativity Theory 50 Time in Relativistic Cosmology 54...
chapter 1 Time in the Classical and Medieval Worldviews From the Beginnings to the Pre-Socratic School Zeno's Time Arrow and Aristotle's Continuum 6 T...
Seit den Anfangen in der 50er Jahren haben die Forschungen zum Thema Computer und Gehirn einen beispiellosen Aufschwung erlebt. In der letzten Dekade unseres Jahrhunderts scheint das Gehirn zum Paradigma neuartiger lernfahiger und selbstorganisierender Systeme zu werden, die mit den programmierbaren Rechenmaschinen von einst nur noch bedingte Ahnlichkeit aufweisen. Kann man die Funktionsweise des menschlichen Gehirns uberhaupt mit der eines Computers vergleichen? Was wissen wir uber das Leben und lasst sich dieses Wissen fur die Konstruktion neuer, leistungsfahiger "intelligenter" Systeme...
Seit den Anfangen in der 50er Jahren haben die Forschungen zum Thema Computer und Gehirn einen beispiellosen Aufschwung erlebt. In der letzten Dekade ...
This Brief is an essay at the interface of philosophy and complexity research, trying to inspire the reader with new ideas and new conceptual developments of cellular automata. Going beyond the numerical experiments of Steven Wolfram, it is argued that cellular automata must be considered complex dynamical systems in their own right, requiring appropriate analytical models in order to find precise answers and predictions in the universe of cellular automata.
Indeed, eventually we have to ask whether cellular automata can be considered models of the real world and, conversely, whether...
This Brief is an essay at the interface of philosophy and complexity research, trying to inspire the reader with new ideas and new conceptual devel...
The principle of local activity explains the emergence of complex patterns in a homogeneous medium. At first defined in the theory of nonlinear electronic circuits in a mathematically rigorous way, it can be generalized and proven at least for the class of nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems in physics, chemistry, biology, and brain research. Recently, it was realized by memristors for nanoelectronic device applications. In general, the emergence of complex patterns and structures is explained by symmetry breaking in homogeneous media, which is caused by local activity. This book argues that...
The principle of local activity explains the emergence of complex patterns in a homogeneous medium. At first defined in the theory of nonlinear electr...
