From Complexity to Creativity: Explorations in Evolutionary, Autopoietic, and Cognitive Dynamics

by Ben Goertzel

Book Overview

Cybernetic pioneer Warren McCullough asked: "What is a man, that he may know a number; and what is a number, that a man may know it?" Thinking along much the same lines, my question here is: "What is a creative mind, that it might emerge from a complex system; and what is a complex system, that it might give rise to a creative mind?" Complexity science is a fashionable topic these days. My perspective on complexity, however, is a somewhat unusual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147577091X
• ISBN13: 9781475770919
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"