High end complexity

International Journal of General Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 689-714

  Kitto, Kirsty ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contextuality; High end complexity; Objectivity; Quantum models of complexity; Separability; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUALITY; HIGH END COMPLEXITY; OBJECTIVITY; QUANTUM MODELS OF COMPLEXITY; SEPARABILITY; SUBJECTIVITY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 55349105448     PISSN: 03081079     EISSN: 15635104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081070701524232     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Aerts, D., 1982. Example of a macroscopical classical situation that violates Bell inequalities. Lettere Al Nuovo Cimento, 34 (4), 107-111.
2. Aerts, D., 2005. Towards a new democracy: consensus through quantum parliament. In: D. Aerts, B. D'Hooghe and N. Note, eds. Worldviews, Science and Us, Redemarcating Knowledge and its Social and Ethical Implications. Singapore: World Scientific.
3. Aerts, D. and Gabora, L., 2005. A theory of concepts and their combinations I: the structure of the sets of contexts and properties. Kybernetes, 34, 151-175.
4. Auyang, S.Y., 1998. Foundations of Complex-system Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
5. Baaquie, B.E., 2004. Quantum Finance: Path Integrals and Hamiltonians for Options and Interest Rates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Baas, N.A., 1994. Emergence, hierarchies, and hyperstructures. In: C. Langton, ed. Artificial Life III. Advanced Book Program, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Addison-Wesley, 515-537.
7. Bak, P., 1996. How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality. New York: Springer-Verlag.
8. Barabási, A.-L. and Oltvar, Z., 2004. Network biology: understanding the cell's functional organization. Nature Reviews: Genetics, 5, 101-113.
9. Beckermann, A., Flohr, H. and Kim, J., eds. 1992. Emergence or Reduction? Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
10. Bedau, M.A., 1997. Weak emergence. In: J. Tomberlin, ed. Philosophical Perspectives: Mind, Causation, and World. Vol. 11, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 375-399.
11. Bell, J., 1964. On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox. Physics (Bell, 1987), 195-200.
12. Bell, J.S., 1987. Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13. Bohm, D., 1981. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
14. Bohm, D., 1989. Quantum Theory. Reprint edition. New York: Dover Publications Inc.
15. Brandon, R., 1990. Adaptation and Environment. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
16. Bruza, P. and Cole, R., 2005. Quantum logic of semantic space: an exploratory investigation of context effects in practical reasoning. In: S. Artemov, H. Barringer, A. d'Avila Garcez, L. Lamb and J. Woods, eds. We Will Show Them: Essays in Honour of Dov Gabbay. Vol. 1. London: College Publications, 339-361.
17. Bruza, P., Kitto, K. and Barros, A., 2007a. Exploration of non-reductionist models of service ecosystems. In preparation. Abstract accepted at Complex'07 - The 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference.
18. Bruza P.D., Lawless W., Rijsbergen, C.V. and Sofge, D., eds. 2007b. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Quantum Interaction. March 27-29. Stanford University, Menlo Park: AAAI Press.
19. Cahill, R.T., 2005. Process Physics: From Information Theory to Quantum Space and Matter. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
20. Casti, J.L., 1986. On system complexity: identification, measurement and management. In: J.L. Casti and A. Karlqvist, eds. Complexity, Language and Life: Mathematical Approaches. Volume 16 of Biomathematics Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 146-173.
21. Chaitin, G., 1990. Information Randomness and Incompleteness. 2nd ed. Singapore: World Scientific.
22. Chu, D., Strand, R. and Fjelland, R., 2003. Theories of complexity. Complexity, 8 (3), 19-30.
23. Cilliers, P., 1998. Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems. New York: Routledge.
24. Conrad, M., 1983. Adaptability: The Significance of Variability from Molecule to Ecosystem. New York: Plenum Press.
25. Corning, P.A., 2002. The re-emergence of 'emergence': a venerable concept in search of a theory. Complexity, 7 (6), 18-30.
26. Crutchfield, J.P., 1994a. The calculi of emergence: computation, dynamics and induction. Physica D, 75, 11-54.
27. Crutchfield, J.P., 1994b. Is anything ever new? In: G. Cowan, D. Pines and D. Melzner, eds. Integrative Themes. Volume 19 of Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
28. Davydov, A., 1991. Solitons in Molecular Systems. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
29. Dawkins, R., 1998. Postmodernism disrobed. Nature, 394, 141-143.
30. Delamotte, B., 2004. A hint of renormalization. American Journal of Physics, 72 (2), 170-184.
31. Edmonds, B., 1999, Syntactic measures of complexity. PhD thesis. University of Manchester, http://bruce.edmonds.name/thesis/index.html.
32. Ford, E., 1975. Ecological Genetics. 4th ed. London: Chapman and Hall.
33. Fröhlich, H., 1988. Theoretical physics and biology. In: H. Fröhlich, ed. Biological Coherence and Response to External Stimuli. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1-24.
34. Gabora, L. and Aerts, D., 2002. Contextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 14, 327-358.
35. Greenstein, G. and Zajonc, A.G., 1997. The Quantum Challenge: Modern Research on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
36. Haken, H., 1988. Information and Self-Organization: A Macroscopic Approach to Complex Systems. Springer series in synergetics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
37. Horgan, J., 1995. From complexity to perplexity. Scientific American, 272, 74-79.
38. Kadanoff, L., 1966. Scaling laws for Ising models near Tc. Physica, 2, 263.
39. Kaku, M., 1993. Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
40. Kampis, G., 1995. The inside and outside views of life. In: F. Moran, A. Moreno, J. Merelo and P. Chacon, eds. Advances in Artificial Life. Third European Conference on Artificial Life Granada, Spain, 4-6 June. New York: Springer, 95-102.
41. Kitto, K., 2002. Dynamical hierarchies in fundamental physics. In: E. Bilotta, D. Groß, T. Smith, T. Lenaerts, S. Bullock, H.H. Lund, J. Bird, R. Watson, P. Pantano, L. Pagliarini, H. Abbass, R. Standish and M. Bedau, eds. Workshop Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALife VIII), Sydney: University of New South Wales, 55-62.
42. Kitto, K., 2005. Gauging alife: emerging complex systems. In: H. Abbass, T. Bossamaier and J. Wiles, eds. Recent Advances in Artificial Life. Volume 3 of Advances in Natural Computation. Singapore: World Scientific, 117-130.
43. Kitto, K., 2006, Modelling and Generating Complex Emergent Behaviour. PhD thesis. School of Chemistry Physics and Earth Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia.
44. Kitto, K., 2007. Process physics: quantum theories as models of complexity. Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, (in press).
45. Kolmogorov, A., 1965. Three approaches to the quantitative definition of information. Problems of Information Transmission, 1, 1-7.
46. Laloë, F., 2001. Do we really understand quantum mechanics? Strange correlations, paradoxes, and theorems. American Journal of Physics, 69 (6), 655-701.
47. Li, M. and Vitányi, P., 1993. An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and its Applications. New York: Springer-Verlag.
48. Löfgren, L., 1977. Complexity of descriptions of systems: a foundational study. International Journal of General Systenu, 3, 197-214.
49. Löfgren, L., 1996. Shadows of language in physics and cybernetics. Systems Research, 13 (3), 329-340.
50. Löfgren, L., 2004. Unifying foundations - to be seen in the phenomenon of language. Foundations of Science, 9, 135-189.
51. Marshak, R.E., 1993. Conceptual Foundations of Modern Particle Physics. Singapore: World Scientific.
52. Maynard Smith, J., 1993. The Theory of Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
53. Mermin, N.D., 1993. Hidden variables and the two theorems of John Bell. Reviews of Modern Physics, 65 (3), 803-815.
54. Minati, G. and Pessa, E., 2006. Collective Beings. Contemporary Systems Thinking. New York: Springer.
55. K. Mruck, R. Wolff-Michael and F. Breuer, eds. 2002. Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Volume 3 of Subjectivity and Reflexivity in Qualitative Research I.
56. Neeman, Y. and Eizenberg, E., 1995. Membranes and Other Extendons. Singapore: World Scientific.
57. O'Neill, R.V., DeAngelis, D.L., Waide, J.B. and Allen, T.F.H., 1986. A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems. Volume 23 of Monographs in Population Biology. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
58. Pattee, H.H., 1968. The problem of biological hierarchy. In: C.H. Waddington, eds. Towards a Theoretical Biology. Vol. 3. Drafts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
59. Pattee, H.H., 1996. Simulations, realizations, and theories of life. In: M. A. Boden, ed. The Philosophy of Artificial Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 379-393.
60. Pattee, H.H., 2001. The physics of symbols: bridging the epistemic cut. BioSystems, 60, 5-21.
61. Pimm, S., 2002. Food Webs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
62. Prigogine, I., 1970. From Being to Becoming. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.
63. Primas, H., 1983. Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics and Reductionism. Perspectives in Theoretical Chemistry. 2nd ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
64. Rabinowitz, N., 2005, Emergence: an algorithmic formulation. Honours thesis (UWA), http://ftp.physics.uwa.edu.au/pub/Theses/2005/Rabinowitz.pdf.
65. Root, R., 1967. The niche exploitation pattern of the blue-grey gnatcatcher. Ecological Monographs, 37, 150-317.
66. Rosen, R., 1991. Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life. Complexity in Ecological Systems Series. New York: Columbia University Press.
67. Rosen, R., 2000. Essays on Life Itself. Complexity in Ecological Systems Series. New York: Columbia University Press.
68. Rovelli, C., 1998, Loop quantum gravity. Living Reviews in Relativity, 1 [Online Article] URL (cited on 29 January 2006): http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-1998-1.
69. Salthe, S.N., 1985. Evolving Hierarchical Systems: Their Structure and Representation. New York: Columbia University Press.
70. Schroeder, M., 1999. Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.
71. Sen, A., 1998, An introduction to non-peturbative string theory. Available at arXiv:hep-th/9802051.
72. Silberstein, M. and McGeever, J., 1999. The search for ontological. The Philosophical Quarterly, 49 (195), 182-200.
73. Simon, H.A., 1996. The Sciences of the Artificial. 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: MTT Press.
74. Sokal, A., 1996a. A physicist experiments with cultural studies. Lingua Franca, May/June, 62-64.
75. Sokal, A., 1996b. Transgressing the boundaries: toward a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity. Social Text, 46-47, 217-252.
76. Thom, R., 1975. Structural Stability and Morphogenesis. Reading, MA: W.A. Benjamin.
77. Turing, A., 1952. The chemical basis of morphogenisis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B237, 37-72.
78. Umezawa, H., 1993. Advanced Field Theory: Micro, Macro, and Thermal Physics. New York: American Institute of Physics.
79. Vitiello, G., 2001. My Double Unveiled. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
80. West-Eberhard, M.J., 1989. Phenotypic plasticity and the origins of diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 20, 249-278.
81. Wheeler, J., 1992. It from bit. In: L. Keldysh and V. Feinberg, eds. Sakharov Memorial Lectures on Physics. Volume 2 of Proceedings of the First International Sakharov Conference on Physics. New York: Nova Science.
82. Wilson, K., 1975. The renormalization group: critical phenomena and the Kondo problem. Reviews of Modern Physics, 47, 773.