The physics of emergence

• Tác giả: Robert C Bishop
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1643271538
• ISBN-13: 978-1643271545
• ISBN-13: 978-1643271569
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 530.11 Relativity theory
• Thông tin xuất bản: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (various pagings).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 161103
• Chủ đề: 1. Emergence (Philosophy); 2. Physics--Philosophy; 3. Particle & high-energy physics; 4. SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

This book explores whether physics points to a reductive or an emergent structure of the world and proposes a physics-motivated conception of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions shaping the philosophical conceptions. Examining several detailed case studies reveals results that point to stability conditions playing a crucial though underappreciated role in the physics of emergence. This contextual emergence has thought-provoking consequences for physics and beyond.