The spontaneous origin of new levels in a scalar hierarchy

Entropy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-343

  Salthe, Stanley N ^a,b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristotelian causal categories; Entropy production; Finality; Scalar hierarchy

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMODYNAMICS;

ARISTOTELIAN CAUSAL CATEGORIES; ENTROPY PRODUCTION; FINALITY; SCALAR HIERARCHY;

ENTROPY;

EID: 4644301427     PISSN: 10994300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e6030327     Document Type: Article

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