INVESTIGATIONS
THE NATURE OF AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
AND THE WORLDS THEY MUTUALLY CREATE

STUART A. KAUFFMAN
http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/kauffman/Investigations.html
SEPTEMBER 13, 1996

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The biosphere, it seems, in its persistent evolution, is doing something literally incalculable, non-algorithmic, and outside our capacity to predict, not due to quantum uncertainty alone, nor deterministic chaos alone, but for a different, equally, or more profound reason: Emergence and persistent creativity in the physical universe is real.

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AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE
Penguin 1995
 
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selection - complexity - "spontaneous order" – natural selection - biology - organisms  - laws of life -  Darwin - selection - selforganisation -