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Abstract
This book is a state-of-the-art review on the Physics of Emergence.
Foreword v
Gregory J. Chaitin
Preface vii
Ignazio Licata
Emergence and Computation at the Edge of Classical and
Quantum Systems 1
Ignazio Licata
Gauge Generalized Principle for Complex Systems 27
Germano Resconi
Undoing Quantum Measurement: Novel Twists to the Physical
Account of Time 61
Avshalom C. Elitzur and Shahar Dolev
Process Physics: Quantum Theories as Models of Complexity 77
Kirsty Kitto
A Cross-disciplinary Framework for the Description of
Contextually Mediated Change 109
Liane Gabora and Diederik Aerts
Quantum-like Probabilistic Models Outside Physics 135
Andrei Khrennikov
Phase Transitions in Biological Matter 165
Eliano Pessa
Microcosm to Macrocosm via the Notion of a Sheaf
(Observers in Terms of t-topos) 229
Goro Kato
The Dissipative Quantum Model of Brain and Laboratory
Observations 233
Walter J. Freeman and Giuseppe Vitiello
Supersymmetric Methods in the Traveling Variable: Inside
Neurons and at the Brain Scale 253
H.C. Rosu, O. Cornejo-Perez, and J.E. Perez-Terrazas
Turing Systems: A General Model for Complex Patterns
in Nature 267
R.A. Barrio
Primordial Evolution in the Finitary Process Soup 297
Olof Gornerup and James P. Crutchfield
Emergence of Universe from a Quantum Network 313
Paola A. Zizzi
Occam's Razor Revisited: Simplicity vs. Complexity in Biology 327
Joseph P. Zbilut
Order in the Nothing: Autopoiesis and the Organizational
Characterization of the Living 339
Leonardo Bich and Luisa Damiano
Anticipation in Biological and Cognitive Systems: The Need
for a Physical Theory of Biological Organization 371
Graziano Terenzi
How Uncertain is Uncertainty? 389
Tibor Vamos
Archetypes, Causal Description and Creativity in Natural World 405
Leonardo Chiatti