Ebook: Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial life, embryology, complexity, cosmology, theology and the philosophy of biology. This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775

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Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial life, embryology, complexity, cosmology, theology and the philosophy of biology.

This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775

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Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial life, embryology, complexity, cosmology, theology and the philosophy of biology.

This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
The Initial Low Gravitational Entropy of the Universe as the Origin of Design in Nature....Pages 3-16
On the Biological Origin of Design in Nature....Pages 17-41
Creativity in Nature....Pages 43-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-58
Plato’s Pythagorean Cosmos: Order and Chaos in the Intelligence of Natural Design....Pages 59-85
War or Peace? Huxley and Kropotkin’s Battle Over the Design of Virtue....Pages 87-110
Free Will in God’s Dice Game....Pages 111-119
Does Biology Need a New Theory of Explanation? A Biological Perspective on Kant’s Critique of Teleological Judgment....Pages 121-139
Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Design: A Dynamic Approach....Pages 141-160
The Design of Morality....Pages 161-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-192
The Best Mislaid Plans: A Religious Approach to the Question of the Planning of Reality....Pages 193-205
Judaism and Evolution in Four Dimensions: Biological, Spiritual, Cultural, and Intellectual....Pages 207-220
Random Natural Laws Versus Direct Trends: A Cabbalistic Interpretation Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Kook....Pages 221-237
The Identity of Designer and Design....Pages 239-254
In the Beginning There Was Lightning: Fulguro-Genesis and Eduard Loewenthal’s Religion of Religions....Pages 255-270
Structure and Creativeness: A Reinterpretation of the Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li ? and Qi ?....Pages 271-285
Evolution: The Biblical Account of Life’s Development....Pages 287-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-300
Design and Disorder: Gould, Adaptationism and Evolutionary Psychiatry....Pages 301-324
Architecture and Design Among Plants and Animals: Convergent and Divergent Developmental Mechanisms....Pages 325-341
The Lingual Taste Papillae: A Delicate and Complicated Nature’s Design for Taste Modalities Perception....Pages 343-356
Divine Genesis, Evolution, and Astrobiology....Pages 357-367
Front Matter....Pages 299-300
Consistent Patterns of Statistical Distributions in Natural Ecological Communities: Lake Phytoplankton....Pages 369-384
Coupling of Growth, Differentiation and Morphogenesis: An Integrated Approach to Design in Embryogenesis....Pages 385-428
Interior Cell Design: VICKZ Proteins Mediate RNA Localization and Cell Function....Pages 429-443
Organic Codes and the Origin of Language....Pages 445-473
Mechano-Sensing in Embryonic Biochemical and Morphologic Design: Evolutionary Perspectives on Emergence of Primary Organisms....Pages 475-504
Front Matter....Pages 505-506
A Response to Darwin’s Dilemma: A-PR Cycles and the Origin of Design in Nature....Pages 507-522
The Synthetic Approach in Biology:Epistemic Notes for Synthetic Biology....Pages 523-537
Necessity and Freedom in Designs of Nature....Pages 539-557
Not All Designs Are Created Equal....Pages 559-572
Design of Living Systems in the Information Age: Brain, Creativity, and the Environment....Pages 573-591
Technological Design of Natural Exemplars....Pages 593-607
Trouble for Natural Design....Pages 609-622
Imagining a Theory of Everything for Adaptive Systems....Pages 623-638
Front Matter....Pages 639-640
Hidden Order and the Origin of Complex Structures....Pages 641-652
What the Fine-Tuning Argument Shows (and Doesn’t Show)....Pages 653-669
The Continuous Increase in the Complexity of the Designed Structures of the Universe Is Described as Movement Against Maximum Entropy....Pages 671-682
Law, Order, and Probability....Pages 683-692
Design and Self-Organization....Pages 693-712
Development of Organisms as Self-Organization of Mechanically Stressed Macroscopic Designs....Pages 713-731
Playing God: The Historical Motivations of Artificial Life....Pages 733-748
Front Matter....Pages 749-750
The Socially Constructed Natural Origins of Self-Organization....Pages 751-771
Complex Epidemics, Simplistic Tools: The Failure of AIDS Policy in Africa....Pages 773-791
Front Matter....Pages 793-794
Back Matter....Pages 795-798
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