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	In this thought-provoking volume, George Kampis argues
(among other things) that the Turing-Church Thesis is false, at
least for the kinds of physical systems that concern
developmental biologists, cognitive scientists, economists, and
other of that ilk. [...]

	This book represents an exciting point of departure from ho-
hum traditional works on the philosophy of modeling, especially
noteworthy being the fact that instead of offering mere
complaints against the status quo, Kampis also provides a
paradigm holding out the promise of including both the classical
systems of the physicist and engineer and the neoclassical
processes of the biologist and psychologist under a single
umbrella. As such, the ideas in this pioneering book merit the
attention of all philosophers and scientists concerned with the
way we create reality in our mathematical representations of the
world and the connection those representation have with the way
things "truly are".


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		    Oxford OX3 0BW, England or a local Pergamon office

	ISBN 0-08-0369790     100 USD/ 50 pound sterlings

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2. Forthcoming: A SPECIAL ISSUE ON EMERGENCE AND CREATIVITY


It's a Special Issue of 
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*    World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution         *
*          (Gordon & Breach), to appear August 1991          *
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*    Guest Editor:  G. Kampis                                *
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* Title:     Creative Evolution in Nature, Mind and Society  *
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Individual copies will be available (hopefully), at a special
rate (under negotiation).

List of contents:

Kampis, G.              Foreword
Rustler, E.O.           "On Bodyism" (Report 8-80 hta 372)
Salthe, S.              Varieties of Emergence
Csanyi, V.              Societal Creativity
Kampis, G.              Emergent Computations, Life and Cognition
Cariani, P.             Adaptivity and Emergence in Organisms
                            and Devices
Fernandez,J., Moreno,A. 
and Etxeberria, A.      Life as Emergence
Heylighen, F.           Modelling Emergence
Tsuda, I.               Chaotic Itinerancy as a Dynamical Basis  
                            for Hermeneutics in Brain and Mind
Requardt, M.            Godel, Turing, Chaitin and the Question 
                            of Emergence as a Meta-Principle of
                            Modern Physics. Some Arguments       
                            Against Reductionism

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3. preprint from the Special Issue on Emergence


            EMERGENT COMPUTATIONS, LIFE AND COGNITION

                      by George Kampis

          Evolutionary Systems Group, Dept. of Ethology
             L. Eotvos University of Budapest, Hungary

					  and

             Department of Theoretical Chemistry
        University of Tubingen, D-7400 Tubingen, FRG


ABSTRACT	This is a non-technical text discussing general ideas
of information generation. A model for emergent processes is
given. Emergence is described in accordance with A.N. Whitehead's
theory of 'process'. The role of distinctions and
variable/observable definitions is discussed. As applications,
parallel computations, evolution, and 'component-systems' are
discussed with respect to their ability to realize emergence.

KEYWORDS: emergence, distinctions, modeling, information set,
evolution, cognitive science, theory of computations.

AVAILABLE from the author at

			h1201kam at ella.hu       or
			h1201kam at ella.uucp

or by mail at H-1122 Budapest Maros u. 27.