| Description |
280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Addiction to ancient sunlight: a dire dependency -- A toolbox of techniques from emergent thermodynamics -- High emergature agriculture -- Reflections on human activities and the environment -- Tuning the biological clock |
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Contents note continued: Organization, entropy and order -- Temperature and heat -- The spontaneous organization of the sun eaters -- Energy! -- Towards understanding life and things living -- 5.Organic Mechanics -- The story of organic mechanics -- Leaves: our chosen mascots for living things -- How a leaf's vein pattern forms: a three -isms perspective -- Morphogenetic fields for leaves: what might they look like? -- Connecting morphogenetic fields and the three -isms perspective -- A morphogenetic field system for leaves -- Morphogenetic fields for plant structure -- The complexity number -- Morphogenetic wavestates -- Emergent energy -- More than a morphic metaphor? -- 6.Seeds for a New Ecology -- The trouble with ecology -- Emergent thermodynamics -- ̀Thermal equilibrium' of plant communities -- Insulation -- Emergent systems -- The conservation of emergent energy -- Death. And the life cycle -- A great conceptual fractal -- 7.Harmoniously Human -- |
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Machine generated contents note: Summary -- 1.Ghosts in Our Oceans of Thought -- Science matters -- The buried beliefs of science -- The rise of scientific mindset: a tale of three -isms -- How living things confound the -isms -- Complex systems: evolving the three -isms perspective -- The life sciences: from vitalism to vivisection -- 2.Life and Things Living -- Life's creations -- Life's methods -- Precision from randomness: the chaos game -- Genes: the book of life? -- Physics: imagination in action -- 3.A Swim in the Ocean of Thoughts -- Conceptual metaphors -- Conceptual metaphors in science: cooking up new context -- A tree of knowledge -- Some existing conceptual metaphors of the life sciences -- Morphogenetic fields and modern mindsets -- Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields -- 4.A Walk in the Mind Garden -- Three modalities of matter and energy -- Life at the atomic level -- The particle-wave or the wave-guided particle? -- Systems of systems -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-276) and index |
| Subject |
Bioenergetics.
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Biology -- Philosophy.
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Life (Biology)
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Vital force.
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| LC no. |
2016497720 |
| ISBN |
9780863157974 |
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