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Gaia 2 : emergence : the new science of becoming / edited by William Irwin Thompson.

Title
  1. Gaia 2 : emergence : the new science of becoming / edited by William Irwin Thompson.
Published by
  1. Hudson, NY : Lindisfarne Press, c1991.

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Additional authors
  1. Lindisfarne Association.
  2. Thompson, William Irwin.
  3. Università di Perugia. Dipartimento di epistemologia e scienze cognitive.
Description
  1. 272 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Alternative title
  1. Gaia two.
Subject
  1. Biology > Philosophy > Congresses
  2. Biosphere > Congresses
  3. Ecology > Philosophy > Congresses
  4. Gaia hypothesis > Congresses
  5. Geobiology > Congresses
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings
Contents
  1. The imagination of a new science and the emergence of a planetary culture / William Irwin Thompson -- Gaia : a planetary emergent phenomenon / James E. Lovelock -- Two plus three equal one : individuals emerge from bacterial communities / Lynn Margulis, Ricardo Guerrero -- Immu-knowledge : the process of somatic individuation / Francisco J. Varela, Mark Anspach -- Perception and the emergence of color / Evan Thompson -- Light and cognition / Arthur G. Zajonc -- Hierarchical levels, emergent qualities, ecosystems, and the ground for a new agriculture / Wes Jackson -- Biology as a basis for design / John Todd, Nancy Jack Todd -- The conceptualization of nature : nature as design / Susan Oyama -- Emergence and transcendence in evolution / Gianluca Bocchi, Mauro Cerutti -- Symposium : From biology to cognitive science : general symposium on the cultural implications of the idea of emergence in the fields of biology, cognitive science, and philosophy -- Politics becoming a planet / William Irwin Thompson.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Papers from an international conference held in Perugia, Italy, May 1988 and organized by the Lindisfarne Association in collaboration with the Dept. of Epistemology and Cognitive Science at the University of Perugia.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
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