Fundamentals for the Anthropocene
This book seeks to bridge the gap between leading edge scholarship about the nature of the physical, tangible Universe and the nature of the life process on Earth on the one hand, and on the other hand challenges facing human society as to the current revolution in energy sources, national and inter...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Warsaw ; Berlin :
De Gruyter
2017
[2019] |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425881006719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Visible Universe Starts With - Believe It or Not - Correlation
- 2 Correlation=Differentiation=Order
- 3 Some Basic Characteristics of this Ordering Process as Thus Conceived
- 4 Hierarchy and Emergence Theories
- 5 Causation
- 6 The Arrow of Time
- 7 Complexity
- 8 Life
- 9 Energy
- 10 Globalization (Make It or Break It)
- 11 Ethics, Thermodynamics, and The Anthropocene
- Appendix A: Note on Ontology and Epistemology
- Appendix B: A Selection of Human Social Conventions Which Favor Cooperative, and Thus Correlated, or Coordinated, Behavior
- Appendix C: Quantitative Wikis For Energy Supply and Distribution Modeling
- References
- Index
