Natural Fabrications
            
                Frontiers Collection Hardcover
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9783642295980
Description: The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world. In this elegant picture, everything we observe is based upon just a few fundamental processes and entities. The almost infinite variety and complexity of the world is thus the product of emergence. But the concept of emergence is fraught with controversy and confusion. This book ponders the question of how emergence should be understood within the scientific picture, and whether a complete vision of the world can be attained that includes consciousness.