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Télécharger le livre : Science and Free Will
Science and Free Will
Stephan Schleim
Free will is one of the most discussed topics in neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. Many even assume that our view of human nature and our social order are at stake. This book shows that the academic debate is often conducted under misleading assumptions:...

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Parution : 2024-08-05
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Télécharger le livre : Information Dynamics
Information Dynamics
Thomas Dittrich
This wide-ranging book introduces information as a key concept not only in physics, from quantum mechanics to thermodynamics, but also in the neighboring sciences and in the humanities. The central part analyzes dynamical processes as manifestations of information...

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Parution : 2022-11-23
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Télécharger le livre : The Language of Living Matter
The Language of Living Matter
Bernd-Olaf Küppers
This book, by an eminent scientist and philosopher, provides strong evidence for the claim that language is a general principle of Nature, rooted exclusively in physical and chemical laws. The author’s radical idea inevitably leads us to view the essence, origin and...

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Parution : 2022-06-01
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Télécharger le livre : From Biological to Artificial Consciousness
From Biological to Artificial Consciousness
Masataka Watanabe
How does consciousness emerge from a brain that consists only of physical matter and electrical / chemical reactions? The deep mysteries of consciousness have plagued philosophers and scientists for thousands of years. This book approaches the problem through scientific...

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Parution : 2022-05-18
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Télécharger le livre : Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability
Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability
Anthony Aguirre , Zeeya Merali , David Sloan
For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true. They could discern what math corresponds to physical...

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Parution : 2021-08-20
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Télécharger le livre : Earth, Our Living Planet
Earth, Our Living Planet
Philippe Bertrand , Louis Legendre
Earth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How to explain thatEarth is teeming with organisms and that this has lasted for so long? What makesEarth different from its...

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Parution : 2021-04-21
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Télécharger le livre : Time, Progress, Growth and Technology
Time, Progress, Growth and Technology
Filipe Duarte Santos
This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable development, including its social, economic and environmental components. The author argues that we need to develop a new concept of time based on inter-generational solidarity, which focuses both on the long-...

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Parution : 2020-09-18
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Télécharger le livre : NANO-CHIPS 2030
NANO-CHIPS 2030
Bernd Hoefflinger , Boris Murmann
In this book, a global team of experts from academia, research institutes and industry presents their vision on how new nano-chip architectures will enable the performance and energy efficiency needed for AI-driven advancements in autonomous mobility, healthcare, and...

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Parution : 2020-06-08
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Télécharger le livre : WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.)
WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.)
Newton Da Costa , Shyam Wuppuluri
“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going...

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Parution : 2019-11-22
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Télécharger le livre : On Art and Science
On Art and Science
Dali Wu , Shyam Wuppuluri
Einstein once remarked "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well". In this volume, some of the world’s leading thinkers come...

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Parution : 2019-11-02
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Télécharger le livre : The Reality of Time Flow
The Reality of Time Flow
Richard T. W. Arthur
It is commonly held that there is no place for the 'now’ in physics, and also that the passing of time is something subjective, having to do with the way reality is experienced but not with the way reality is. Indeed, the majority of modern theoretical physicists and...

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Parution : 2019-04-25
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Télécharger le livre : Particles, Fields and Forces
Particles, Fields and Forces
Wouter Schmitz
How can fundamental particles exist as waves in the vacuum?How can such waves have particle properties such as inertia? What is behind the notion of “virtual” particles? Why and how do particles exert forces on one another? Not least: What are forces anyway? These are...

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Parution : 2019-04-23
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Télécharger le livre : Information—Consciousness—Reality
Information—Consciousness—Reality
James B. Glattfelder
This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. By utilizing abstract thought systems, humans...

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Parution : 2019-04-10
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Télécharger le livre : Spirals and Vortices
Spirals and Vortices
Stefan C. Müller , Kinko Tsuji
This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating and ubiquitous occurrence of spirals and vortices in human culture and in nature. Spiral forms have been used as elements in the arts for thousands of years, whereas their role in nature and science – from DNA and...

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Parution : 2019-04-04
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Télécharger le livre : What is Fundamental?
What is Fundamental?
Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali
Are there truly fundamental entities in nature? Or are the things that we regard as fundamental in our theories – for example space, time or the masses of elementary particles – merely awaiting a derivation from a new, yet to be discovered theory based on elements that...

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Parution : 2019-03-21
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Télécharger le livre : Stepping Stones to Synthetic Biology
Stepping Stones to Synthetic Biology
Sergio Carrà
This book explores fascinating topics at the edge of life, guiding the reader all the way from the relation of life processes to the second law of thermodynamics and the abundance of complex organic compounds in the universe through to the latest advances in synthetic...

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Parution : 2018-10-10
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Télécharger le livre : Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering
Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering
Juan Manuel Durán
This book addresses key conceptual issues relating to the modern scientific and engineering use of computer simulations. It analyses a broad set of questions, from the nature of computer simulations to their epistemological power, including the...

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Parution : 2018-09-20
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Télécharger le livre : Wandering Towards a Goal
Wandering Towards a Goal
Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali
This collection of prize-winning essays addresses the controversial question of how meaning and goals can emerge in a physical world governed by mathematical laws. What are the prerequisites for a system to have goals? What makes a physical process into a signal? Does...

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Parution : 2018-05-30
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Télécharger le livre : The Map and the Territory
The Map and the Territory
Francisco Antonio Doria , Shyam Wuppuluri
This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart. Together they illuminate the Map/Territory Distinction that underlies at the foundation of the...

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Parution : 2018-02-13
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Télécharger le livre : The Essential Tension
The Essential Tension
Sonya Bahar
'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group. The author argues that the controversial concept of multilevel selection is essential to biological evolution, a proposition set to stimulate new debate. The idea of one...

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Parution : 2017-11-28
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