Evolution and transitions in complexity: the science of hierarchical organization in nature. By Gerard A. J. M. Jagers op Akkerhuis
Résumé
This book, written with 12 collaborators (biologists, physicists, and philosophers from various countries), is the result of a long-standing endeavor to find a law in the “organization of nature,” according to the expression used in an enlightening foreword. From 1994 on, Jagers op Akkerhuis has developed a conceptual system called the operator hierarchy allowing us to view nature (a concept encompassing all scales of the whole universe) as a ladder, with rungs of increasing complexity, from quarks to neural networks, which he considers “increasing perfection.”
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