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*[http://provost.gmu.edu/robinson/about/harold-morowitz/ Morowitz HJ]. (2002) [http://books.google.com/books?id=CbCHoV3Un4YC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The Emergence of Everything: How the World became Complex'']. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019513513X. | [http://www.questia.com/library/120073335/the-emergence-of-everything-how-the-world-became Book Full-Text]. | [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LifeSciences/HistoryPhilosophyofBiology/?ci=9780195173314 Book Description; Author Information; Reviews]. | *[http://provost.gmu.edu/robinson/about/harold-morowitz/ Morowitz HJ]. (2002) [http://books.google.com/books?id=CbCHoV3Un4YC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The Emergence of Everything: How the World became Complex'']. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019513513X. | [http://www.questia.com/library/120073335/the-emergence-of-everything-how-the-world-became Book Full-Text]. | [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LifeSciences/HistoryPhilosophyofBiology/?ci=9780195173314 Book Description; Author Information; Reviews]. | ||
**<font face="Gill Sans MT">We are clearly at the beginning of viewing science from the new perspective of emergence. I believe that it will provide insights into the evolutionary unfolding of our universe, our solar system, our biota, and our humanity. | **<font face="Gill Sans MT">We are clearly at the beginning of viewing science from the new perspective of emergence. I believe that it will provide insights into the evolutionary unfolding of our universe, our solar system, our biota, and our humanity. | ||
**"Morowitz has provided the first state-of-the-art overview of the theory of emergence across the scientific disciplines." —Philip Clayton, Harvard University | **"Morowitz has provided the first state-of-the-art overview of the theory of emergence across the scientific disciplines." —Philip Clayton, Harvard University | ||
**This book has a pronouncedly theological cast as evidenced, for example, by this quotation (far from unusual): | **This book has a pronouncedly theological cast as evidenced, for example, by this quotation (far from unusual): "If we identify the immanent God, the mysterious laws of nature, with God the father, then emergence will be the efficient operation of that God, which Christianity views as the Holy Spirit. We will come back to these ideas in more detail later." Morowitz, (pp. 23-24)</font> | ||
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- A. C. C. Coolen, R. Kuhn, P. Sollich (2005). “Principles of neural information processing”, Theory of Neural Information Processing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198530234. A technical treatment of neural networks and their differences from conventional computer systems.
- Mahlon B. Hoagland, Bert Dodson, Judith Hauck (2001). “§6.5 Allostery and molecular communication”, Exploring the Way Life Works: The Science of Biology. Jones & Bartlett Learning, pp. 219 ff. ISBN 076371688X. A textbook that describes (among much else) feedback systems regulating biological networks.
- O'Connor, Timothy and Wong, Hong Yu (Feb 28, 2012). Edward N. Zalta, ed,:Emergent Properties. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2012 Edition).
- R Keith Sawyer (November 2001) Emergence in sociology: Contemporary philosophy of mind and some implications for sociological theory American Journal of Sociology 107 (3) pp.551-585. A discussion of both nonreductive (collective phenomena are collaboratively created by individuals yet are not reducible to individual action) and the reductive (emergent social properties can be reduced to explanations in terms of individuals and their relationships) views.
- Morowitz HJ. (2002) The Emergence of Everything: How the World became Complex. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019513513X. | Book Full-Text. | Book Description; Author Information; Reviews.
- We are clearly at the beginning of viewing science from the new perspective of emergence. I believe that it will provide insights into the evolutionary unfolding of our universe, our solar system, our biota, and our humanity.
- "Morowitz has provided the first state-of-the-art overview of the theory of emergence across the scientific disciplines." —Philip Clayton, Harvard University
- This book has a pronouncedly theological cast as evidenced, for example, by this quotation (far from unusual): "If we identify the immanent God, the mysterious laws of nature, with God the father, then emergence will be the efficient operation of that God, which Christianity views as the Holy Spirit. We will come back to these ideas in more detail later." Morowitz, (pp. 23-24)