Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought Complexity and Order in Evolution in Thought

Bird, Richard

ISBN 10: 023112662X ISBN 13: 9780231126625

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2003

Sprache: Englisch

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Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought Complexity and Order in Evolution in Thought

Verlag

Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

023112662X

ISBN-13

9780231126625

Einband

Hardcover

Zustand

NEAR FINE

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Very Good

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Why, in a scientific age, do people routinely turn to astrologers, mediums, cultists, and every kind of irrational practitioner rather than to science to meet their spiritual needs? The answer, according to Richard J. Bird, is that science, especially biology, has embraced a view of life that renders meaningless the coincidences, serendipities, and other seemingly significant occurrences that fill people's everyday existence. Evolutionary biology rests on the assumption that although events are fundamentally random, some are selected because they are better adapted than others to the surrounding world. This book proposes an alternative view of evolving complexity. Bird argues that randomness means not disorder but infinite order. Complexity arises not from many random events of natural selection (although these are not unimportant) but from the "playing out" of chaotic systems-which are best described mathematically. When we properly understand the complex interplay of chaos and life, Bird contends, we will see that many events that appear random are actually the outcome of order.

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Richard J. Bird is visiting scholar and sometime senior lecturer at Northumbria University in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He is past president of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences.

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