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Chaos, Information Processing and Paradoxical Games The Legacy of John S Nicolis edited by Gregoire Nicolis & Vasileios Basios (University of Brussels, Belgium) Apply this discount code to enjoy 20% off Discount Code: WSMAR20 | till 16 March 2015 hardcover: US$148 / £98 / S$191 US$118.40 / £78.40 / S$152.80 ebook: US$111 / £74 / S$143 US$88.80 / £59.20 / S$114.40 This volume provides a self-contained survey of the mechanisms presiding information processing and communication. The main thesis is that chaos and complexity are the basic ingredients allowing systems composed of interesting subunits to generate and process information and communicate in a meaningful way. Emphasis is placed on communication in the form of games and on the related issue of decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Biological, cognitive, physical, engineering and societal systems are approached from a unifying point of view, both analytically and by numerical simulation, using the methods of nonlinear dynamics and probability theory. Epistemological issues in connection with incompleteness and self-reference are also addressed. FREE SAMPLE CHAPTER(S) Table of Contents (2,437 KB) Chapter 9: Selforganization of Symbols and Information (700 KB) Chapter 13: Thermodynamics of Cerebral Cortex Assayed by Measures of Mass Action (531 KB) Chapter 16: Dynamical Systems++ for a Theory of Biological System (140 KB) You may also be interested in: Complexity and Control Towards a Rigorous Behavioral Theory of Complex Dynamical Systems The Nonlinear Workbook 6th Edition Engineering of Chemical Complexity II The (1+1)-Nonlinear Universe of the Parabolic Map and Combinatorics