Titlebook: Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics; Ron Cottam,Willy Ranson Book 2017 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature

护航舰

legacy

Under the Hood, . logic, which is inconsequential. We consider the mutation of instincts to goals in living systems, and the relation of abstraction to fear-learning. A primary feature of organism operations is the ability to switch between natural and abstract logics: all in all, abstraction is a major facilitato

Odyssey

Thinking Things, representation of a birational hierarchy, and the singular metascalar integration of these two hyperscales, which can be related to Brenner’s emergent third state. This leads to a definition of both intelligence and sapience in a scalar system, as the capability to transit between system scales, an

entrance

行为

使无效

Mind Matters,and consciousness. We briefly describe Vimal’s model of consciousness and quote Bohm’s belief about the presence of a ubiquitous low level of awareness in Nature. Awareness is distinguished from high-level consciousness, and we describe the amplification of awareness to this high-level phenomenon. W

commonsense

fibroblast

hegemony

骑师

Setting the Stage,haracters of non-locality and localization, and relate these to particle-wave duality and the nature of reality. A first introduction of the physics of electronic properties is presented: this will later be critical in our development. A brief overview of the book’s contents is presented.