Kampis Self-Modifying Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science

A New Framework for Dynamics, Information and Complexity
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-08-091239-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 6, 564 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering

The theme of this book is the self-generation of information by the self-modification of systems. The author explains why biological and cognitive processes exhibit identity changes in the mathematical and logical sense. This concept is the basis of a new organizational principle which utilizes shifts of the internal semantic relations in systems. There are mathematical discussions of various classes of systems (Turing machines, input-output systems, synergetic systems, non-linear dynamics etc), which are contrasted with the author's new principle. The most important implications of this include a new conception on the nature of information and which also provides a new and coherent conceptual view of a wide class of natural systems. This book merits the attention of all philosophers and scientists concerned with the way we create reality in our mathematical representations of the world and the connection those representations have with the way things really are.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kampis, G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Self-Modifying Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science: A New Framework for Dynamics, Information and Complexity;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;14
5;Foreword;8
6;Preface;8
7;CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION;22
7.1;1.1. MODELS OF LIFE AND MIND;24
7.2;1.2. PITFALLS OF DYNAMICAL MODELS;30
7.3;1.3. AN ANSWER: TECHNICAL TOUR DE FORCE;42
7.4;1.4. ANOTHER ANSWER: FUNDAMENTALS;46
8;CHAPTER
2. A CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH TO MODELS;48
8.1;2.1. FOUNDATIONS;48
8.2;2.2. MODELS AND THE IDEA OF MATHEMATICAL CONSTRUCTIVISM;55
8.3;2.3. CAUSALITY AND DETERMINISM: 'WHY'-S AND 'HOW'-S;58
8.4;2.4. ENTITIES;63
8.5;2.5. TIME AND INFORMATION;69
8.6;2.6. OBSERVABLES;73
8.7;2.7. THE CONCEPT OF INFORMATION SET;78
8.8;2.8. ENCODINGS OF OBSERVABLES INTO VARIABLES;87
8.9;2.9. THE MODELLING RELATION;91
8.10;2.10. IMPLICATIONS;96
9;CHAPTER
3. FROM OBSERVATIONS TO A THEORY OF DYNAMICS;104
9.1;3.1. THE ZENO PARADOXES AND THE SHUTTLE PRINCIPLE;104
9.2;3.2. ON THE NOTION OF STATE;123
9.3;3.3. ANTICIPATION AND THE EXISTENCE PROOF FOR STATES ;138
9.4;3.4. MATERIAL AND FORMAL IMPLICATIONS;156
9.5;3.5. CONSTRUCTION OF DYNAMICS AS A TRANSITION FROM MATERIAL TO FORMAL IMPLICATIONS;167
9.6;3.6. STATES AND DYNAMICS BROUGHT TOGETHER;174
10;CHAPTER
4.THE MECHANISTIC UNIVERSE;178
10.1;4.1. AN ALTERNATE VIEW OF MECHANICS;180
10.2;4.2. DYNAMICS AS STATICS: THE WALLED-IN UNIVERSE;188
10.3;4.3. THE ATOMISTIC PERSPECTIVE;197
10.4;4.4. THE NATURE OF MECHANISTIC SYSTEMS;205
11;CHAPTER
5.COMPONENT-SYSTEMS: BEYOND ALGORITHMIC DYNAMICS;218
11.1;5.1. THE CONCEPT OF COMPONENT-SYSTEM;219
11.2;5.2. ORIGINS OF THE CONCEPT;226
11.3;5.3. PROBLEM PROPERTIES;232
11.4;5.4. COMPONENTS AS DYNAMIC OBSERVABLES: THE HERMENEUTICS OF LIFE;244
11.5;5.5. THE CONCEPT OF IMMENSITY;246
11.6;5.6. GENIDENTITY' AND DYNAMICS;252
11.7;5.7. THE MAIN THEOREM;255
11.8;5.8. UNIVERSAL LIBRARIES;262
11.9;5.9. FALSE DYNAMICS;267
11.10;5.10. CREATION AND NON-ALGORITHMIC SELF-MODIFICATION;275
11.11;5.11. A HIDDEN ASSUMPTION ELIMINATED;298
12;CHAPTER
6. COMPLEXITY AND ITS INCREASE IN SYSTEMS;299
12.1;6.1. THE CONCEPT OF COMPLEXITY;300
12.2;6.2. THE MATHEMATICAL NOTION OF COMPLEXITY;303
12.3;6.3. MATHEMATICAL COMPLEXITY THEORY;307
12.4;6.4. RELATIVE COMPLEXITY;314
12.5;6.5. 'COMPLEX SYSTEMS' IN PHYSICS;327
12.6;6.6. DYNAMIC COMPLEXITY;342
12.7;6.7. THE INCREASE OF COMPLEXITY;351
12.8;6.8. A COMPLEXITY HIERARCHY;363
13;CHAPTER
7. SELF-REPRODUCTION AND COMPUTATION;366
13.1;7.1. SELF-REPLICATION AS A MEANS FOR EXISTENCE ;366
13.2;7.2. SELF-MAINTENANCE;372
13.3;7.3. SELF-REPRODUCING AUTOMATA;376
13.4;7.4. SELF-REPRODUCING AUTOMATA ARE TRIVIAL;393
13.5;7.5. CONSTRUCTION, REPRODUCTION AND COMPUTATION ;396
13.6;7.6. SELF-REFERENCE AND AUTOPOIESIS;404
13.7;7.7. A MODEL OF SELF-REPRODUCTION;414
13.8;7.8. THE WIGNER PARADOX;416
13.9;7.9. TOWARDS THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE;421
14;CHAPTER
8. THE CONCEPT OF INFORMATION;426
14.1;8.1. EXPOSITION;426
14.2;8.2. SYNTACTIC INFORMATION CONCEPTS;427
14.3;8.3. SEMANTIC CONCEPTS;434
14.4;8.4. 'INFORMATION' AS A SYSTEM DESCRIPTION: AN INTERLUDE;438
14.5;8.5. TOWARDS A CAUSAL THEORY;444
14.6;8.6. TWO TYPES OF INFORMATION: KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION ;457
14.7;8.7. A NEW CONCEPT;461
15;CHAPTER
9. PERSPECTIVE;468
15.1;9.1. LAW, FORM, AND MEANING: THREE VISTAS OF CAUSALITY;468
15.2;9.2. THE CHURCH-TURING HYPOTHESIS;493
16;REFERENCES;512
17;INDEX;539
18;AUTHORS INDEX;556