The third culture / by John Brockman.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1996, c1995.Edition: 1st Touchstone edDescription: 413 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0684823446 (pbk.) :
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A package of information / George C. Williams -- The pattern of life's history / Stephen Jay Gould -- A survival machine / Richard Dawkins -- Biology is just a dance / Brian Goodwin -- Why is there so much genetic diversity? / Steve Jones -- A battle of words / Niles Eldredge -- Gaia is a tough bitch / Lynn Margulis -- Smart machines / Marvin Minsky -- Information is surprises / Roger Schank -- Intuition pumps / Daniel C. Dennett -- The thick moment / Nicholas Humphrey -- The emergent self / Francisco Varela -- Language is a human instinct / Steven Pinker --
Consciousness involves noncomputable ingredients / Roger Penrose -- An ensemble of universes / Martin Rees -- A universe in your backyard / Alan Guth -- A theory of the whole universe / Lee Smolin -- The synthetic path / Paul Davies -- Plectices / Murray Gell-Mann -- Order for free / Stuart Kauffman -- A dynamical pattern / Christopher G. Langton -- The second law of organization / J. Doyne Farmer -- Close to the singularity / W. Daniel Hillis.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection Q 141 .B846 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98629949

Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-397) and index.

A package of information / George C. Williams -- The pattern of life's history / Stephen Jay Gould -- A survival machine / Richard Dawkins -- Biology is just a dance / Brian Goodwin -- Why is there so much genetic diversity? / Steve Jones -- A battle of words / Niles Eldredge -- Gaia is a tough bitch / Lynn Margulis -- Smart machines / Marvin Minsky -- Information is surprises / Roger Schank -- Intuition pumps / Daniel C. Dennett -- The thick moment / Nicholas Humphrey -- The emergent self / Francisco Varela -- Language is a human instinct / Steven Pinker --

Consciousness involves noncomputable ingredients / Roger Penrose -- An ensemble of universes / Martin Rees -- A universe in your backyard / Alan Guth -- A theory of the whole universe / Lee Smolin -- The synthetic path / Paul Davies -- Plectices / Murray Gell-Mann -- Order for free / Stuart Kauffman -- A dynamical pattern / Christopher G. Langton -- The second law of organization / J. Doyne Farmer -- Close to the singularity / W. Daniel Hillis.

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