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Beginnings is a most entertaining book that explores the nature of innovation. It argues that, because all things we experience were once new, they must have a common essence. The author reduces this essence to that strange, buzzing process in which we are all immersed, "dynamical information." With the aid of nearly fifty illustrations, Beginnings then shows this universal process -- varying in its diverse settings only to our unaccustomed eyes -- to underlie the origins of strikingly different entities. The book answers why? and how? by confronting enduring issues in the biological, physical and social sciences and p
Beginnings is a most entertaining book that explores the nature of innovation. It argues that, because all things we experience were once new, they must have a common essence. The author reduces this essence to that strange, buzzing process in which we are all immersed, "dynamical information." With the aid of nearly fifty illustrations, Beginnings then shows this universal process -- varying in its diverse settings only to our unaccustomed eyes -- to underlie the origins of strikingly different entities. The book answers why? and how? by confronting enduring issues in the biological, physical and social sciences and philosophy. Offered also are insights into why each of us is a spectrum of "selves" and the question, what is life?
Beginnings' many examples clarify topics such as how our minds work so flexibly, how we create new works (using Shakespeare's and others'), how human networks form and their ensuing tendencies, what is authority and why we conform to it despite its surprising sources, the fundamental importance of diversity, how new ideas are accepted -- or not -- by groups, the inspiring implications of these new patterns of life and, paradoxically, how we less-than-perfect creatures succeed.
To all you readers who enjoy engrossing works: here's a book that offers a unique, multidimensional perspective of our world and the human condition.
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Manufacturer: Idler's Cove Press
Release date: 1 September 2002
ISBN-10 : 0971106916 |
ISBN-13: 9780971106918
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