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There Is No Theory of Everything - A Physics Perspective on Emergence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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There Is No Theory of Everything - A Physics Perspective on Emergence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The main purpose of this book is to introduce a broader audience to
emergence by illustrating how discoveries in the physical sciences
have informed the ways we think about it. In a nutshell, emergence
asserts that non-reductive behavior arises at higher levels of
organization and complexity. As physicist Philip Anderson put it,
"more is different." Along the text's conversational tour through
the terrain of quantum physics, phase transitions, nonlinear and
statistical physics, networks and complexity, the author highlights
the various philosophical nuances that arise in encounters with
emergence. The final part of the book zooms out to reflect on some
larger lessons that emergence affords us. One of those larger
lessons is the realization that the great diversity of theories and
models, and the great variety of independent explanatory
frameworks, will always be with us in the sciences and beyond.
There is no "Theory of Everything" just around the corner waiting
to be discovered. One of the main benefits of this book is that it
will make a number of exciting scientific concepts that are not
normally covered at this level accessible to a broader audience.
The overall presentation, including the use of examples, analogies,
metaphors, and biographical interludes, is geared for the educated
non-specialist.
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