The Emergence of Everything

When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters came together to form the first living cell,that was emergence. When the activities of the neurons in the brain result in mind, that too is emergence. In The Emergence of Everything, one of the leading scientists involved in the study of complexity, Harold J. Morowitz, takes us on a sweeping tour of the universe, a tour with 28 stops, each one highlighting a particularly important moment of emergence. For instance, Morowitz illuminates theemergence of the stars, the birth of the elements and of the periodic table, and the appearance of solar systems and planets. We look at the emergence of living cells, animals, vertebrates, reptiles, and mammals, leading to the great apes and the appearance of humanity...

המשפט הראשון: The writer of Ecclesiastes who proclaimed that "The thing that hath been is that which shall be; and that which is done shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun" was taking an extremely short-term point of view.

שנה

2002

שפה

English

הוצאה

Oxford University Press, USA

מהדורות

4

עמודים

218

ISBN

9780195135138

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata