Bios : a study of creation / Héctor Sabelli ; with the collaboration of Louis Kauffman, ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabelli, Héctor.

Series:

K & E series on knots and everything ; v. 35.

K & E series on knots and everything ; v. 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation--Philosophy.

Creation.

Physical Description:

x, 654 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Other Title:

Title from disc label: Bios data analyzer

Place of Publication:

London ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2005]

Summary:

Bios, meaning life, explores the hypothesis that natural processes are creative (neither random, nor determined). Bios is a prototype for the complex patterns created by causal processes. This book (1) presents methods for identifying bios in empirical data; (2) demonstrates biotic patterns in physical, biological and economic processes; and (3) introduces bipolar (positive and negative) feedback as a mathematical model for the generation of bios. Turbulence is paradigmatic of chaos; heart rate variation is the prototype for bios.

Creation Theory advances the hypothesis that the universe is creative and organized by universal and relatively simple mathematical forms. The interaction of paired opposites, such as elementary particles and biological sexes, constitute processes of mutual and bipolar feedback. They generate bios at all levels of organization, thereby contributing to cosmological, biological and human evolution. In turn, complex processes feedback and transform simpler ones. Simple processes have priority and energy. Complex processes have supremacy. The universe evolves towards an Infinite Attractor, not towards equilibrium, entropic decay, or randomness. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: How is the Universe that It Creates a Human Heart? 1

Part 1 Creative Processes and Mathematical Models

1 A Research Program: A Science of Creative Processes 14

2 On the Shoulders of Giants 35

3 Mathematical Ideas: Bios and Biotic Feedback / L. Kauffman 74

Part 2 Methods and Empirical Studies

4 Bios Data Analysis 114

4.1 Designing Methods by Studying Cardiac Patterns

4.2 Process Statistics: Diversification, Asymmetry and 1/f Novelty / M. Patel

4.3 Phase Plane of Opposites: Energy and Information / L. Carlson-Sabelli

4.4 Information: Repetition, Rise, and Fall / M. Patel

4.5 Trigonometric Analysis of Opposites

4.6 Novelty, Causation (Recurrence Isometry Method) / A. Sugerman

4.7 Complexes: Recurrence and Wavelet Plots

4.8 Arrangement, a Measure of Nonrandom Complexity

4.9 Simplicity and Complexity: Embedding Plots / A. Sugerman

5 The Biotic Pattern of Heart Rate Variation / J. Messer 253

6 The Biotic Expansion of the Universe / L. Kovacevic 271

7 Novelty in DNA 304

Part 3 A Theory of Natural Creation

8 Bios Hypothesis 318

9 Creation Theory 348

10 Mathematical Genesis 410

Part 4 Co-Creation

11 Biotic Thermodynamics: Entropy as Diversity 437

12 The Infinite Attractor of Evolution 470

13 Biotic Evolution 488

14 Biotic Earth, Biotic Climate 539

15 Biotic Processes in Economics 551

16 Biological Priority, Psychological Supremacy 581

17 Co-Creation Practice: Education, Nursing and Psychodrama / L. Carlson-Sabelli 609

18 A Manner of Thinking: Mathematical Priority and Psychological Supremacy 621.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

981256103X

OCLC:

61202698