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Evolving Hierarchical Systems - Their Structure and Representation (Hardcover)
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Evolving Hierarchical Systems - Their Structure and Representation (Hardcover)
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A bold effort to find a functional and transactional framework for
synthetic evolutionary theory, "Evolving Hierarchical Systems"
seeks to represent the order in nature by discriminating a
hierarchical system and defining the logical boundaries of the
concepts inherent in this system (such as time, causality,
complexity, partitioning, scale, and polarity). Salthe's basic
assumption is that the world is unlimitedly complex. Biology and
some other sciences, such as geology and applied physics, have
become entangled in this complexity with, the author writes, 'as
little ability to negotiate it as a fly in a spider's web'. He
argues that biological nature in particular is undercharacterized
in our representations, and because of that so is the rest of
nature. The book first describes the principles of hierarchical
structure and discusses the process of discovering the relevant
aspects of the hierarchy of nature.It then brings in the concept of
self-reference and moves onto an interpretation and explanation of
organic evolution in this framework. While Salthe's focus is in
biology, the outline of a hierarchy theory he presents is asserted
to be a 'philosophical machine' that can be applied as a
hermeneutical tool to many fields of inquiry concerned with change
in complex systems. Felt by the author to also be a response to
Jacques Monod's "Chance and Necessity", this book is a significant
statement on the hierarchical organization of the surface of the
earth. It is provocative reading not only for biologists but also
for anthropologists, sociologists, geologists, and scientists
interested in general systems research.
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