| 书目名称 | From Electrons to Elephants and Elections | | 副标题 | Exploring the Role o | | 编辑 | Shyam Wuppuluri,Ian Stewart | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Explains the multifaceted dialectic at hand.Shows how it shapes the foundations of science, our thought, and the very reality itself.Addresses the important tension between content and context and imp | | 丛书名称 | The Frontiers Collection | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contributions from eminent authors, addresses the interplay between content and context, reductionism and holism and their meeting point: the notion of emergence. Much of today’s science is reductionist (bottom-up); in other words, behaviour on one level is explained by reducing it to components on a lower level. Chemistry is reduced to atoms, ecosystems are explained in terms of DNA and proteins, etc. This approach fails quickly since we can’t cannot extrapolate to the properties of atoms solely from Schrödinger‘s equation, nor figure out protein folding from an amino acid sequence or obtain the phenotype of an organism from its genotype. An alternative approach to this is holism (top-down). Consider an ecosystem or an organism as a whole: seek patterns on the same scale. Model a galaxy not as 400 billion-point masses (stars) but as an object inits own right with its own properties (spiral, elliptic). Or a hurricane as a structured form of moist air and water vapour. Reductionism is largely about content, whereas holistic models are more attune | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | Reductionism and Emergence; Emergentism; Holism; levels of descriptions; Contextuality; Top-down versus b | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92192-7 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-92194-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-92192-7Series ISSN 1612-3018 Series E-ISSN 2197-6619 | | issn_series | 1612-3018 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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