Physics and the real world

Physics Today

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 49-53

  Ellis, George F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHAOS THEORY; DNA; ENTROPY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

ELECTRON DISTRIBUTION; GAS LAWS; HIGHER-LEVEL VARIABLES; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 23844540446     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2012463     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. G. F. R. Ellis, in The Re-Emergence of Emergence, P. Clayton, P. C. W. Davies, eds., Oxford U. Press, New York (in press); also available at http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/~ellis/emerge.doc.
2. G. Booch, Object Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, 2nd ed., Benjamin Cummings, Redwood City, CA (1994).
3. N. A. Campbell, Biology, Benjamin Cummings, Menlo Park, CA (1996).
4. R. B. Laughlin, A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down, Basic Books, New York (2005).
5. S. Hartmann, Stud. Hist. Philos. Mod. Phys. 32, 267 (2001).
6. R. Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind, Oxford U. Press, New York (1989).
7. H. J. Schellnhuber, Nature 402, C19 (1999).
8. G. F. R. Ellis, J. Tbronchuk, in Consciousness and Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice, and Selective Perception, N. Newton, R. Ellis, eds., John Benjamins, Philadelphia (2004), p. 81.
9. J. H. Milsum, Biological Control Systems Analysis, McGraw-Hill, New York (1966).
10. B-O. Küppers, Information and the Origin of Life, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1990).
11. R. L. Flood, E. R. Carson, Dealing with Complexity: An Introduction to the Theory and Application of Systems Science, Plenum Press, London (1990).
12. T. Pink, Free Will: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford U. Press, New York (2004).
13. J. B. Hartle, in The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, G. W. Gibbons, E. P. S. Shellard, S. J. Rankin, eds., Cambridge U. Press, New York (2003), p. 38.
14. D. J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, Oxford U. Press, New York (1996).
15. J.-M. Lehn, Supramolecular Chemistry: Concepts and Perspectives, VCH Verlag, New York (1995).
16. S. W. Hawking, G. F. R. Ellis, The Large-Scale Structure of Space-Time, Cambridge U. Press, New York (1973).
17. A larger, more in-depth treatise on the emergence of complexity is available at http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/~ellis/realworld.doc.