Harold J. Morowitz was een wetenschappelijke auteur wiens werken de filosofische en wetenschappelijke onderbouwing van het leven onderzochten. Zijn geschriften onderzochten de diepe verbanden tussen natuurkunde, scheikunde en biologische systemen, op zoek naar eenheid principiële die levende organismen besturen. Morowitz' aanpak werd gekenmerkt door helderheid van denken en een vermogen om complexe concepten op een boeiende manier uit te leggen. Zijn literaire nalatenschap ligt in zijn nadruk op hoe het begrijpen van leven een interdisciplinair perspectief vereist dat de kloof tussen wetenschap en filosofie overbrugt.
The book presents a multidisciplinary exploration of life's origins, integrating geology, biochemistry, microbiology, and more. It posits that life's emergence resulted from a series of non-equilibrium phase transitions that facilitated new chemical energy flows on Earth. With a structured approach, it offers accessible insights into various scientific fields and includes an extensive bibliography for further reading. Aimed at researchers and professionals, it synthesizes diverse perspectives to create a cohesive understanding of life's beginnings and the biosphere's organization.
Joseph Campanella had trained several months for a mission that, once the details were revealed, seemed beyond any reasonable chances of success. But here he was about to take a leap of faith to accomplish a destiny that history, as it was written, said he would fulfill. The noise outside the chamber where he stood was now at an ear shattering pitch as the results of five years of scientific research were now operating at full capacity. Equipment was banging, shrieking, and churning at a fevered level - yet inside the chamber Joseph Campanella heard little. The six-inch Plexiglas shield and surrounding transport portal equipment had silenced most of the clamor. What noise still filtering its way in was erased by his incredible mental ability to silence the outside world when needed. He realized that his heartbeat was elevated and his breathing slightly labored, so he used his training and began to meditate himself into a calmer state. Just as he was about to close his eyes a flash of movement caught his attention in the control room above. At that moment Kurt Schultz knew he was about to change the world, past, present, and future. He bounded down the steps toward the glass viewing area stopping just short of plowing into the structure. He steadied himself, smiled at Campanella with a victorious beaming grin, and then a flash of brilliant light consumed the control room...
One of the most exciting theories to emerge from cognitive science research over the past few decades has been Douglas Hofstadter's notion of “strange loops,” from Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979). Hofstadter is also an active literary translator who has written about translation, perhaps most notably in his 1997 book Le Ton Beau de Marot , where he draws on his cognitive science research. And yet he has never considered the possibility that translation might itself be a strange loop.In this book Douglas Robinson puts Hofstadter's strange-loops theory into dialogue with a series of definitive theories of translation, in the process showing just how cognitively and affectively complex an activity translation actually is.
The Emergence of Everything is a study of complexity which highlights 28 moments of , what the the author feels are, the most important emergences. The author also seeks out the nature of God in an emergent universe, agruing that we can know God through a study of the laws of nature.
