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Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics de Ron Cottam

Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics

Autor Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 apr 2018

Remarcăm în volumul Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics un efort analitic riguros de a depăși dihotomia clasică dintre biologic și fizic, pornind de la studiile de caz asupra semiconductorilor ca modele de proprietăți fizice. Ron Cottam și Willy Ranson propun o schimbare de paradigmă: în loc să dezmembreze sistemele complexe în componente izolate — procesul reducționist standard — aceștia investighează ierarhiile naturale ca structuri care păstrează interrelațiile esențiale. Subliniem modul în care autorii abordează problema reconstrucției sistemelor, demontând presupunerea că analiza și sinteza sunt simetrice.

Organizarea volumului reflectă o progresie logică atentă, de la stabilirea contextului epistemologic în primele capitole, până la explorarea unor teme avansate precum conștiința și informația în „Mind Matters”. Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics completează perspectiva oferită de Reductionism and Systems Theory in the Life Sciences, adăugând o bază tehnică solidă prin corelarea ierarhiilor vii cu proprietățile electronice ale materiei anorganice. În timp ce alte lucrări se limitează la critica filozofică a reducționismului, acest titlu oferă un cadru de cercetare concret pentru identificarea nivelurilor de organizare subiacente.

Apreciem rigoarea cu care sunt tratate aspectele logice, autorii acordând o atenție deosebită fundamentării consistenței argumentelor care sunt, de regulă, lăsate subînțelese în literatura de specialitate. Este o lucrare de graniță care folosește limbajul fizicii pentru a explica complexitatea vieții, fără a cădea în capcana vitalismului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319745329
ISBN-10: 3319745328
Pagini: 356
Ilustrații: XVIII, 338 p. 134 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.76 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte se adresează cercetătorilor și studenților avansați în biotehnologie, fizică și filozofia științei. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a sistemelor ierarhice, învățând cum să aplice modele din fizica semiconductorilor pentru a descifra complexitatea biologică. Este un instrument teoretic esențial pentru cei care doresc să depășească limitele reducționismului și să înțeleagă viața ca un sistem integrat, nu doar ca o sumă de molecule.

Despre autor

Ron Cottam și Willy Ranson sunt cercetători cu o vastă experiență în cadrul departamentului de Electronică și Informatică (ETRO) de la Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Expertiza lor combinată în inginerie electronică și modelarea sistemelor complexe le-a permis să dezvolte un cadru interdisciplinar unic. Lucrările lor se concentrează pe evoluția sistemelor ierarhice și pe procesarea informației în structuri biologice și artificiale, contribuind semnificativ la înțelegerea modului în care organizarea materiei generează funcționalități complexe. În acest volum publicat de Springer, ei sintetizează decenii de cercetare despre intersecția dintre legile fizicii și dinamica biosferei.

Descriere scurtă

This is the only book which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones. The culmination of the book is the proposition of research to discover and understand the natural underlying level of organization which produces the descriptive commonality of life and physics. Traditional science eliminates life from its purview by its rejection of interrelationships as a primary content of systems. The conventional procedure of science is that of reductionism, whereby complex systems are dismantled to characterize lower level components, but virtually no attention is given to how to rebuild those systems—the underlying assumption is that analysis and synthesis are symmetrical. This book fulfills two main coupled functions. Firstly, it details hierarchy as the major formulation of natural complex systems and investigates the fundamental character of natural hierarchy as a widely transferable ‘container’ of structure and/or function – andthis in the case of the new development of a representational or model hierarchy. Secondly, it couples this hierarchical description to that of the electronic properties of semiconductors, as a well-modeled canonical example of physical properties. The central thesis is that these two descriptions are comparable, if care is taken to treat logical and epistemological aspects with prudence: a large part of the book is composed of just this aspect of care for grounding consistency. As such great attention is given to correct assessment of argumentative features which are otherwise presumed ‘known’ but which are usually left uncertain. Development of the ideas is always based on a relationship between entity or phenomenon and their associated ecosystems, and this applies equally well to the consequent derivations of consciousness and information.

Cuprins

000 Preface.- 00 Foreword.- 0 Contents.- 1 Setting the Stage.- 2 Opening the Curtains.- 3 Partial Everything.- 4 Just In Time.- 5 A Fishy Business.- 6 And Yet It Moves.- 7 Seeing the Wood.- 8 Two’s Company.- 9 Really Reality.- 10 Under the Hood.- 11 Thinking Things.- 12 Making a Difference.- 13 Two into One.- 14 Mind Matters.- 15 Bridging the Gap.- 16 Closing the Curtains.- References.- Acknowledgements.- Index.

Notă biografică

Ron Cottam grew up in Cheshire, in the north-west of England. At school he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, and went on to gain a bachelor’s degree in applied physics and electronics and a PhD in the acoustic physics of II-VI and III-V compounds at the University of Durham, UK. He was invited to the University of Leuven in 1972 to start a new research activity in shape-memory alloy ultrasonics, and in 1976 became responsible for the music-recording facility in HiFi Home, Brugge. He established Sound Stuff – a study bureau in acoustics and music recording facility – in 1979, and worked as an independent in recording-studio design and recorded-music production until he joined the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1983. From 1984 until the 2011 he has been ‘campus medewerker’ for the microelectronics R&D company IMEC vzw in ETRO, working on chemical sensors, integrated optical components, and most recently as leader of the Living Systems Project in the LAMI laboratory of ETRO. He currently continues research work in the Living Systems Project at the VUB as ‘vrijwillige medewerker’. Ron has an impressive publication record (see attached). Willy Ranson received the Telecommunication Engineer degree in 1975 from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Microwaves and Lasers at the University of Leuven until 1983, when he joined the Department of Electronics and Information Processing (ETRO) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Since 1989 he has been a member of the Inter-university Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC) in the VUB. Willy has participated in projects and contracted research on such diverse topics as planar antenna structures, high frequency wave-guides, chemical sensors, biological applications for breast cancer detection, optical information processing for parallel computation, CO2 laser applications, microelectronic process technology andrevolutionary information and revolutionary computation theories. He is currently Senior Researcher in charge of the processing technology lab of LAMI and is a founder member of LIFE (Living Systems). His current research contributions are in the areas of CO2 laser modulation, millimeter imaging systems, micro machines for ultra-rapid DNA screening, fast enforcing technologies for protein engineering and Evolutionary Living Systems, sensing, imaging and modulation functionalities and operating in the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from the microwave range up to the far-infrared, covering the 30 GHz to 30 THz range. Willy is (co)author of more than 140 publications in international refereed journals and conferences (attachment).

Caracteristici

Is the only book of which the authors are aware which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones Shows that each chapter is prefaced by an ‘interlude’ which details in a simple manner the direction it will takes, though the individual chapters may sometimes appear difficult Makes the book accessible to a more generally interested reader Demonstrates that in parallel with verbal formulation, critical ideas are supported by self-consistent figures and illustrations Supports a widely applicable radical view of the nature of computation