WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US<br> Philosophy and Complexity

WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US
Philosophy and Complexity

University of Liverpool, UK, 11 - 14 September 2005

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
INTRODUCTION CARLOS GERSHENSON, DIEDERIK AERTS and BRUCE EDMONDS	1
RESTRICTED COMPLEXITY, GENERAL COMPLEXITY EDGAR MORIN	5
COMPLEXITY SCIENCE AS AN ASPECT OF THE COMPLEXITY OF SCIENCE DONALD C. MIKULECKY	30
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF A CERTAIN SLOWNESS: Stability, memory and hysteresis in complex systems PAUL CILLIERS	53
SIMPLICITY IS NOT TRUTH-INDICATIVE BRUCE EDMONDS	65
CAN THE WHOLE BE MORE THAN THE COMPUTATION OF THE PARTS? A REFLECTION ON EMERGENCE CAMILO OLAYA	81
WHY DIACHRONICALLY EMERGENT PROPERTIES MUST ALSO BE SALIENT CYRILLE IMBERT	99
ON THE RELATIVITY OF RECOGNISING THE PRODUCTS OF EMERGENCE AND THE NATURE OF THE HIERARCHY OF PHYSICAL MATTER KURT A. RICHARDSON	117
TRUTH IN COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS MODELS SHOULD BE BASED ON PROOF BY CONSTRUCTIVE VERIFICATION DAVID SHIPWORTH	141
COMPLEXITY AS AN EPISTEMIC REVOLUTION: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NEW SCIENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF WESTERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY DAMIAN POPOLO	156
METAPHORS AND METHOD: EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON COMPLEXITY SCIENCE RODRIGO M. ZEIDAN and MARIA G. DERENGOWSKI FONSECA	173
SOME PROBLEMS FOR AN ONTOLOGY OF COMPLEXITY MICHAEL McGUIRE	181
HOW TO LOVE THE BOMB: Trying to solve the prisoner's dilemma with evolutionary game theory VASCO CASTELA	203
PHYSICAL COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE EVOLUTION PETER JEDLICKA	221
INFORMATIONAL DYNAMIC SYSTEMS: AUTONOMY, INFORMATION, FUNCTION WALTER RIOFRIO	232
GRASPING THE COMPLEXITY OF LIVING SYSTEMS THROUGH INTEGRATIVE LEVELS AND HIERARCHIES J. M. SIQUEIROS and JON UMEREZ	250
SIMULATION AS FORMAL AND GENERATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE: THE VERY IDEA NUNO DAVID, JAIME SIMÃO SICHMAN and HELDER COELHO	266
A COMPROMISE BETWEEN REDUCTIONISM AND NON-REDUCTIONISM ERAY ÖZKURAL	285
THE COMPLEXITY OF INFORMATION-PROCESSING TASKS IN VISION JOHN SYMONS	300
ON THE POSSIBLE COMPUTATIONAL POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND HECTOR ZENIL and FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ-QUIROZ	315
HOW DOES COMPLEX MATHEMATICAL THEORY ARISE? PHYLOGENETIC AND CULTURAL ORIGINS OF ALGEBRA HELEN DE CRUZ	338
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