Télécharger le livre :  Evolution 2.0
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These essays by leading philosophers and scientists focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the challenges they raise as well as open problems. This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it addresses the key notions of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Second Law of Economics
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Nothing happens in the world without energy conversion and entropy production.  These fundamental natural laws are familiar to most of us when applied to the evolution of stars, biological processes, or the working of an internal combustion engine, but what about...

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Parution : 2011-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  States of Consciousness
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In this accessible overview of current knowledge, an expert team of editors and authors describe experimental approaches to consciousness. These approaches are shedding light on some of the hitherto unknown aspects of the distinct states of human consciousness,...

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Parution : 2011-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Principles of Evolution
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With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understanding of evolution. The questions it asks concern the beginnings of the universe, the origin of life and the chances of its...

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Parution : 2011-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Brain-Computer Interfaces
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A brain-computer interface (BCI) establishes a direct output channel between the human brain and external devices. BCIs infer user intent via direct measures of brain activity and thus enable communication and control without movement. This book, authored by experts in...

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Parution : 2010-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Homo Novus - A Human Without Illusions
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Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, naïve realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our...

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Parution : 2010-08-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior
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In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Weak Links
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How can our societies be stabilized in a crisis? Why can we enjoy and understand Shakespeare? Why are fruitflies uniform?How do omnivorous eating habits aid our survival? What makes the Mona Lisa’s smile beautiful?How do women keep our social structures intact? – Could...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Nonlinear Universe
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It has been suggested that the big questions of science are answered – that science has entered a “twilight age” where all the important knowledge is known and only the details need mopping up. And yet, the unprecedented progress in science and technology in the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Physical Basis of The Direction of Time
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Four previous editions of this book were published in 1989, 1992, 1999, and 2001. They were preceded by a German version (Zeh 1984) that was based on lectures I had given at the University of Heidelberg. My interest in this subject arose originally from the endeavor to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Decoherence
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Over the course of the past decade, decoherence has become a ubiquitous scienti?c term popular in all kinds of research, from fundamental theories of quantum physics to applications in nanoengineering. Decoherence has been hailed as the solution to long-standing...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mindful Universe
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This book concerns your nature as a human being. It is about the connection of your mind to your body. You may imagine that your mind – your stream of conscious thoughts,ideas,andfeelings–in?uencesyouractions.Youmaybelieve that what you think a?ects what you do. You...

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Télécharger le livre :  Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information
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As individual needs have arisen in the fields of physics, electrical engineering and computational science, each has created its own theories of information to serve as conceptual instruments for advancing developments. This book provides a coherent consolidation of...

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Parution : 2007-05-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Particle Metaphysics
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Metaphysics, with which, as fate would have it, I have fallen in love but from which I can boast of only a few favours, o?ers two kinds of advantage. The ?rst is this: it can solve the problems thrown up by the enquiry of mind, when it uses reason to spy after the more...

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Parution : 2007-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads
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Quantum mechanics is a beautiful, strange and successful theory that originated in the 1920s. The theory, which Niels Bohr regarded as finished and complete, has in the last few decades rapidly developed in unexpected directions. An intense new focus on the stranger...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order
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Quantum theory predicts experimental results brilliantly but simultaneously raises difficult conceptual issues. Paradoxes such as Schrödinger’s cat, the EPR paradox, or the nonlocality demanded by Bell’s inequalities have hampered philosophers in their attempts to...

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Parution : 2006-10-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Emerging Physics of Consciousness
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Consciousness is one of the major unsolved problems in science. How do the feelings and sensations making up conscious experience arise from the concerted actions of nerve cells and their associated synaptic and molecular processes? Can such feelings be explained by...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Thermodynamic Machinery of Life
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Thermodynamics was created in the ?rst half of the 19th century as a theory designed to explain the functioning of heat engines converting heat into mechanical work. In the course of time, while the scope of research in this ?eld was being extended to a wider and wider...

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Télécharger le livre :  Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?
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For more than a century, quantum mechanics has served as a very powerful theory that has expanded physics and technology far beyond their classical limits, yet it has also produced some of the most difficult paradoxes known to the human mind. This book represents...

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Parution : 2006-03-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime
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Puts the emphasis on conceptual questions: Why is there no such thing as absolute motion? What is the physical meaning of relativity of simultaneity? But, the most important question that is addressed in this book is "what is the nature of spacetime?" or, equivalently,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-02-18
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