After a long career as a Federation navy captain, Martin Rigsby is looking forward to retirement, but when an urgent distress signal comes in from a human planet near the Milky Way galaxy, his dream of rest and relaxation vanishes in an instant. An assault from Krai'kesh, an ancient enemy, has left the planet in ruins and unable to sustain itself. The long-time soldier must employ every trick in his arsenal to contain the emergence of the enemy and stave off the destruction of humanity.Emergence is the first installment of a high-octane science fiction series set in the Saga of the Seven Stars fantasy universe. Part science fantasy, part space opera, each book features high technology, fighter pilots, marine and intelligence officers, along with the manipulation of matter, energy, and so much more.
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.
We are confronted with emergent systems everywhere and Holland shows how a theory of emergence can predict many complex behaviours in art and science. This book will appeal to scientists and anyone interested in scientific theory.
Emergence
In this book, Paul Humphreys argues that many of the problems arise from a long philosophical tradition that is overly committed to synchronic reduction and has been overly focused on problems in philosophy of mind.
In his bestselling book Emergence, Derek Rydall helps you throw aside the self-help books and recognize one simple, radical truth: the answer is already in you.
This book argues that a plausible account of emergence requires replacing the traditional assumption that what primarily exists are particular entities with generic processes.
This book explores whether physics points to a reductive or an emergent structure of the world and proposes a physics-motivated conception of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions shaping the philosophical ...
Our part in the Universe is quite different from what we have enticed and intoxicated ourselves into believing. Enjoy the series! With Aloha, Justice Hawk
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This book will have an eager audience in metaphysicians working both in the analytic and the Thomistic traditions, as well as philosophers of science and biology interested in emergence theory and causation.