Stuart Kauffman è un biologo teorico e ricercatore di sistemi complessi americano focalizzato sull'origine della vita sulla Terra. Il suo lavoro propone che la complessità dei sistemi biologici possa emergere tanto dall'auto-organizzazione e dalla dinamica lontana dall'equilibrio quanto dalla selezione naturale darwiniana. Applica inoltre modelli di reti booleane a circuiti genetici semplificati, contribuendo alla comprensione delle proprietà emergenti della vita.
A fascinating exploration of the very essence of life itself sheds new light on the order and evolution in complex life systems and defines and explains autonomous agents and work within the contexts of thermodynamics and information theory, setting the stage for a dramatic technological revolution. 50,000 first printing.
The Search for Laws of Self-organization and Complexity
At Home in the Universe presents and extends the intellectual core ofKauffman's earlier book The Origins of Order (OUP 1993) for any intelligentgeneral reader can understand and appreciate. The reader is very effectivelyinvited into Kauffman's vision and thought processes, in one of the moreexhilarating and important books of popular science.
A compelling and sweeping argument that complexity theory can build a bridge between science and religion
In this fascinating read, Kauffman concludes that the development of life on earth is not entirely predictable, because no theory could ever fully account for the limitless variations of evolution. Sure to cause a stir, this book will be discussed for years to come and may even set the tone for the next great thinker.