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F. Eugene Yates, editor. Self-Organizing Systems: the emergence of order. Plenum. 1987

 

Contents

F. Eugene Yates.
General introduction to Self-Organizing Systems
F. Eugene Yates.
Examples of evolving physical systems
Harry Soodak.
On origins: galaxies, stars, life
Arthur S. Iberall.
On rivers
Donald O. Walter, F. Eugene Yates.
Genesis and evolution of life
Harold J. Morowitz.
A hardware view of biological organization
Leslie E. Orgel.
The origin of self-replicating molecules
Peter Schuster, Karl Sigmund.
Self-organization of macromolecules
Stephen Jay Gould.
Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?
Gregory B. Yates.
Differentiation. morphogenesis, and death of organisms
William B. Wood.
Virus assembly and its genetic control
Vladimir Glisin.
Molecular biology in embryology: the sea urchin embryo
Brian C. Goodwin.
Developing organisms as self-organising fields
Alan Garfinkel.
The slime mold Dictyostelium as a model of self-organization in social systems
Caleb E. Finch.
The orderly decay of order in the regulation of the aging processes
Donald O. Walter.
Networks, neural organization, and behavior
Richard Bellman, Ramin Roosta.
On a class of self-organizing communication networks
Gunther S. Stent.
Neural circuits for generating rhythmic movements
Christoph von der Malsberg.
Ordered retinotectal projections and brain organization
Michael A. Arbib.
A view of brain theory
Gregory B. Yates.
Epistemology of self-orgainzation
Francisco J. Ayala.
Biological reductionism: the problems and some answers
Howard H. Pattee.
Instabilities and information in biological self-organization
Gunther S. Stent.
Programmatic phenomena, hermeneutics, and neurobiology
F. Eugene Yates.
Control theory view of self-organization
Edwin B. Stear.
Control paradigms and self-organization in living systems
Rajko Tomovic.
Control theory and self-reproduction
F. Eugene Yates.
Physics of self-organization
Hermann Haken.
Synergetics: an approach to self-organization
Rolf Landauer.
Role of relative stability in self-repair and self-maintenance
Philip W. Anderson, Daniel L. Stein.
Broken symmetry, emergent properties, dissipative structures, life: are they related?
Harry Soodak, Arthur S. Iberall.
Thermodynamics and complex systems
F. Eugene Yates.
Extensions of physical views of self-organization
Eduardo R. Caianiello.
A thermodynamic approach to self-organizing systems
Charles Arthur Muses.
Interfaces between quantum physics and bioenergetics
Arthur S. Iberall, Harry Soodak.
A physics for complex systems
Arthur S. Iberall.
A physics for studies of civilisation
Gregory B. Yates.
Topological representation of self-organization
Ralph H. Abraham, Christopher D. Shaw.
Dynamics: a visual introduction
Ralph H. Abraham.
Dynamics and self-organization
F. Eugene Yates.
Quantumstuff and biostuff: a view of patterns of convergence in contemporary science