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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

8 reviews
Stuart Kauffman

Basic Books, 2008

Perplexed
This is a hard book. A work of generative genius that is almost a sustained prose poem on the subject of how reductionism is not really a good way of looking at how the universe works.I found the early part of the book which shows how the operation of biological processes cannot be determined by or derived from the laws of physics understandable and convincing. This is his home territory from his ...

Investigations

23 reviews
Stuart A. Kauffman

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

A "Must Read" for those of us who wonder.
Kaufman is not a "science writer", he is one of the worlds senior and most distinguished scientists and he has in this book opened his personal notebook of his most cutting-edge arguments and speculation. Fortunately, he also happens to be an excellent writer. As other reviewers have noted, parts of this book may be difficult to read without prior knowledge of the varied subject areas, but for ...

The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution

7 reviews
Stuart A. Kauffman

Oxford University Press, USA, 1993

The science book to read. Six stars at least.
Stuart Kauffman has an MD and is a generalist. The book deals primarily with theory and understanding of computer simulations of state driven systems of large numbers of connected nodes. It examines how such systems evolve through mutation and gives a clear understanding of the limited role of natural selection in comparison to the self-organizing forces at work within such systems. It examines ...

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

58 reviews
Stuart Kauffman

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

A fascinating look at self-organization
We see a great deal of order in living systems. Where does this order come from? Is it entirely from natural selection? The author says no. He explains that much of the order we see in the world is spontaneous, such as in the symmetry of snowflakes, and that much of the order needed for the origination of life and in living organisms is of this spontaneous nature. Kauffman is making a ...

Molecular Evolution on Rugged Landscapes: Protein, RNA, and the Immune System (Volume IX) (Santa Fe Institute ...
Alan S. Perelson, Stuart Kauffman

Westview Press, 1991

Rugged fitness landscapes, and emerging area of biological science, underline both molecular and morphological evolution. Mathematical descriptions of such landscapes can be expected to lead to new experimental studies that actually test and establish their structure. In addition, current experimental techniques now allow one to carry out applied molecular evolution in the laboratory, opening up the possibility of evolving biomolecules for ...