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Entropy and Creativity, a Dialectical Approach / Nikola Kajtez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kajtez, Nikola, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]
- Summary:
- This book positions entropy and creativity as key philosophical categories and presents the action of entropy and the notion of creativity on the informational, natural-scientific, social-humanistic and metaphysical levels. In this sense, the book expands the scale of the civilization envisioned by Nikolai Kardashev and Carl Sagan; deepens the readership's understanding of the anthropic principle and the paradigm concept; provides a layered explanation and solution to the Fermi paradox; corrects the parameters of the Drake equation; explores singularity outside of the traditional framework of this term and points to the philosophical potential of such an expansion; and presents a unique chain of being -- from elementary information to the totality of all possible worlds.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Preface: Entropy and creativity - the complementary unity of opposites
- Part One
- Entropy and creativity - key landmarks
- Difficulties in understanding entropy and creativity
- What is entropy? What is creativity?
- Entropy, creativity and inorganic nature
- Entropy, creativity and life
- Entropy, creativity and civilization
- Creativity, entropy, and culture
- Creativity, entropy, and cognition
- Part Two
- The chain of being - a negentropic perspective
- Is there free knowledge?
- What is the real creative capacity of Nature?
- Creativity, entropy, and spirit
- Аrrow of timе, entropy and creativity
- Epilogue
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kajtez, Nikola Entropy and Creativity, a Dialectical Approach
- ISBN:
- 1-5275-5079-6
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