Anticipatory Systems Philosophical, Mathematical, and Methodological Foundations

Robert Rosen was not only a biologist, he was also a brilliant mathematician whose extraordinary contributions to theoretical biology were tremendous. Founding, with this book, the area of Anticipatory Systems Theory is a remarkable outcome of his work in theoretical biology. This second edition of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosen, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2012, 2012
Edition:2nd ed. 2012
Series:IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Preliminaries
  • Natural and Formal Systems
  • The Modelling Relation
  • The Encodings of Time
  • Open Systems and the Modelling Relation
  • Anticipatory Systems
  • Appendix
  • Addendum: Autobiographical Reminiscences
  • Index