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Time’s Arrow and Evolution25 november 2022
Harold F. Blum . Princeton University Press . 3d edition. 1968 . Library of Congress Catalog Card 68-31676 Preface: ‘What has concerned me is the increasing trend toward ‘deterministic’ thinking that has come with our scientific successes, often bringing with it tacit teleology and panglossianism’. dpb: this statement is still relevant today. An additional point … Verder lezen Time’s Arrow and Evolution
The Order of Time9 september 2022
Carlo Rovelli, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-141-98496-4 In the universe there is the possibility of time and space. Masses of bodies modify the structure of the possible space and time between them: closer to a mass there is less time. dpb: if this concerns how much time passes, then does this mean that the grain of … Verder lezen The Order of Time
How Did I get Here?11 maart 2022
During my public defence the questions was raised at what point I got interested in complexity science. I answered that this happened in my first job, and that my introduction to chaos theory had led up to it. The writings of Gleick (1988) about how deterministic (non-stochastic) systems can generate randomness showed that simple systems … Verder lezen How Did I get Here?