From complexity to life : on the emergence of life and meaning / edited by Niels Henrik Gregersen.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Copy 1 Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Introduction : toward an emergentist worldview / Paul Davies 3 -- Part 1. Defining complexity -- Randomness and mathematical proof / Gregory J. Chaitin 19 -- How to define complexity in physics, and why / Charles H. Bennett 34 -- Part 2. The concept of information in physics and biology -- The emergence of autonomous agents / Stuart Kauffman 47 -- Complexity and the arrow of time / Paul Davies 72 -- Can evolutionary algorithms generate specified complexity? / William A. Dembski 93 -- The second law of gravitics and the fourth law of thermodynamics / Ian Stewart 114 -- Two arrows from a mighty bow / Werner R. Loewenstein 151 -- Part 3. Philosophical and religious perspectives -- Emergence of transcendence / Harold J. Morowitz 177 -- Complexity, emergence, and divine creativity / Arthur Peacocke 187 -- From anthropic design to self-organized complexity / Niels Henrik Gregersen 206.

Includes bibliographical references and index.