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    BIOS
    A Study of Creation(With CD-ROM)

    by Hector Sabelli (Chicago Center for Creative Development, USA)

    Contents (76k)
    Introduction: How is the Universe that it Creates a Human Heart? (976k)

    This book focuses on a prototype of creative causal processes termed BIOS and how the concept can be applied to the physical world, in medicine and in social science. This book presents methods for identifying creative features in empirical data; studies showing biotic patterns in physical, biological, and economic processes; mathematical models of bipolar (positive and negative) feedback that generate biotic patterns. These studies support the hypothesis that natural processes are creative (not determined) and causal (not random) and that bipolar feedback plays a major role in their evolution. Simple processes precede, coexist, constitute and surround the complex systems they generate (priority of the simple). In turn, complex processes feedback and transform simpler ones (supremacy of the complex).

     
    Contents:
    • Creative Processes and Mathematical Models:
      • A Research Program: A Science of Creative Processes
      • On the Shoulders of Giants
      • Mathematical Ideas: Bios and Biotic Feedback (with L Kauffman)
    • Methods and Empirical Studies:
      • Bios Data Analysis (with L Carlson-Sabelli, M Patel & A Sugerman)
      • The Biotic Pattern of Heart Rate Variation (with J Messer)
      • The Biotic Expansion of the Universe (with L Kovacevic)
      • Novelty in DNA
    • A Theory of Natural Creation:
      • Bios Hypothesis
      • Creation Theory
      • Mathematical Genesis
    • Co-Creation:
      • Biotic Thermodynamics: Entropy as Diversity
      • The Infinite Attractor of Evolution
      • Biotic Evolution
      • Biotic Earth, Biotic Climate
      • Biotic Processes in Economics
      • Biological Priority, Psychological Supremacy
      • Co-Creation Practice: Education, Nursing and Psychodrama (with L Carlson-Sabelli)
      • A Manner of Thinking: Mathematical Priority and Psychological Supremacy
    • Includes CD-ROM (with A Sugerman & L Kovacevic)
     
    Readership: Researchers in the natural and human sciences interested in the application of mathematical methods and ideas; physicians, economists, sociologists, psychologists, biologists, physicists, applied mathematicians and philosophers of science.
     
    “The subject index in the end is very helpful … The book develops a new, non-traditional approach to creativity that might have important ramifications and applications in the future. It should attract a wide audience of scholars with interest in mathematics, physics, natural sciences, computer science, economics, social sciences, psychology.”
    Zentralblatt MATH

     
    668pp    Pub. date: Mar 2005  
    ISBN:   978-981-256-103-9
    981-256-103-X
       US$137 / £79

     


    668pp    Pub. date: Mar 2005  
    ISBN:   978-981-270-129-9(ebook)
    981-270-129-X(ebook)
       US$179 / £102

     


     

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