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p vi On `Springer Complexity’
General use of `she’ for the third person singular pronoun
Preface
p viia This is a book of physics;
Feynman’s comment on physicists’ point of view
Number of formulas in the book
p viib Two Comments on `Two Cultures’ (1)
Math is nonverbal in its core!
Two Comments on `Two Cultures’ (II) (more serious comments)
p viii Is this book kind to the students?
Chapter 2 Conceptual Analysis
p36 Bohr and Wittgenstein?
To supply a tool of precise definition is an important function of a formal system (footnote 6)
p39 The great earthquake model of K. Ito’s
Periodic earthquakes in New Zealand
p40
p41 Demonstration of footnote 13
p44 On the Adler-Weiss linear torus map
p48 Additional note to Note 2.1.1 History of the study of chaotic systems
p55 God’s reason that we cannot fathom
p56 Keynes’ ``Newton, the Man’’ (1946)
On superstition
Isn’t ``Don’t be bound by dogmas’’ a dogma?
Addition to Footnote 46 On paradigm and the viewpoint to emphasize discontinuity
Additional comment on paradigm
p57 Cause of superstitions such as God
p58 von Neumann Extractor
p60 Since expelled from Japan
p62 Additional Discussion
p63 lim sup etc.
Scrambled set, some additional explanation
The relation to Sarkovskii’s theorem
Feigenbaum’s critical point
Another characterization of chaos
Footnote 66 additional comment
p64 Footnote 71
We can understand the World by introspection and meditation alone (?)
p69 Professor Lee Rubel’s fundamental theorem of analogue computation (under construction)
Professor Rubel’s letter: Proposal for a New Mathematical Society p70
p70 The danger of Medievalization
What is the Medieval Age?
What is probability, supplement
p75 Axiomatic characterization of information
Physical meaning of information
p78 Ergodicity is irrelevant to statistical mechanics, additional note
p79 Time-correlation function
p87 Footnote 119
p88 Shannon-McMillan-Breiman’s Theorem, a demo outline
p94 On statistical test of random number tables (additional comment)
p95 When compressible
p99 Computability of irrational numbers, etc.
Is computability relevant to physics?
p106 Brudno’s theorem can be sometimes practical.
p110 van Lambalgen’s axioms of randomness
p111 Edge of chaos and computational power
Logical depth (and significance of 16-ary expression of pi)
Chapter 3 Phenomenology
p121 What for has intelligence evolved?
Positive devolution
p122 “What is phenomenology?” An important additional comment
“The world tolerates phenomenological understanding”
p123 Why are there common nouns?
Footnote 7 Priority of essential intuitions comments
p124 Fluctuation and fluid dynamics footnote 11 addendum
A recommended set of introduction to fluid dynamics
p125 Phase transition lecture notes
p126 The formula for the correlation function
p127 Footnote 14 Staudinger and Heidegger addendum
Introduction to polymer physics
p129 History never repeats in the phase transition dynamics
p134 ‘most human beings are not different from dogs in this respect’
p137 Variational principles and forbidding principles
p138 Lambert and pi
‘Phenomenology’
p140 Structural stability addendum
Footnote 47 Comments on the structural stability of chaos.
Footnote 48 Functional analytical nature of the Navier-Stokes equation
p141 Natural history is much harder than physics
p142 No-renormalizable interactions
p145 On the validity of microscopic mechanics (footnote 57)
p153 Worked out examples of renormalization group
p157 Derivation of (3.42)
p168 Interaction representation and renormalization
Chapter 4 Modeling
p191 There is no pure induction
p194 Repeated efforts to undermine the special status of natural science in human culture
Semicircular canal and spatial dimension (footnote 7)
p197 Footnote 16 Adaptor addendum: Mirror neurons
Footnote 17 addendum (more quotes from Wittgenstein and 伝習録)
p198 Footnote 19 Sapir-Whorf thesis addendum
p199 Operationally well-defined correspondence
Footnote 21 Addendum Biology and women
Truth does not exist apart from life. Footnote 22 addendum
p204 What sort of insight could numerical studies of the Riemann zeta function give?
Footnote 34 `the arrogance of attempting to change the world’ Addendum
p205 Large scale models
Ecology and surprise
Food chain and parasitic organisms
p208 Correct differential equation for a given phenomenon ?
Footnote 40 Popper’s original not available
Footnote 41 (categorization) addendum
p209
p210 Mean spherical theorem
p211 C-program for spinodal decomposition and block-copolymer phase separation CDS model (2D)
p215 Lanczos’ biography
p224 Block copolymer program program = spinodal program + video
p225 Phase separation and chondrogenesis
p227 Turing model: Nodal-Lefty system
p228 On reaction-diffusion systems
p230 San Martin paper delay
Chapter 5 Toward Complexity
p235 The basso continuo of this chapter
The end of science (under construction)
Complex vs complicated
Integrative Natural History
p236 “usual ‘complex systems studies’ are off the mark”
p237 Not all eukaryotes use histones
p238 Book entitled The Origin of Values
Is human altruism due to intergroup conflicts?
p239 An introduction to the frame problem
Meaning
Garbage In, Gospel Out
Discussion 5.1
Can we trust networks? Mostly not very much. Footnote 7 addendum `emotional reaction is the intuitive form of value judgment’
p241 Life and flame
Can we trust networks? Mostly not very much.
Turing pattern
Benard pattern
p243 Computer languages (addendum):
Critique of generative grammar
p244 Evolution of humans
On Mesolithic revolution
Animal intelligence: not ordinary examples
p245 Darwin process
Has Darwinism been demonstrated?
Side issues of evolution
Language and thought
p246 Footnote 25 addendum: mathematical performance
Footnote 27 addendum: depth of observation records
Footnote 28 On the difficulty of expression by language
Nonlinguistic judgement
Implicit cognition
“It was my heart that followed my body.’’
p247 The Bible fundamentalism
Logos-Davar and the intrinsic evilness of religions
Logos
Critique of Polanyi
p248 Reconstitution of ribosomes
Cell wall does not constitute itself spontaneity counterexample
Cell and self-organization
p250
p251 Go’s understanding of protein folding (footnote 38)
p256 Possibility of completely different biological systems
p257 Footnote 53 Addendum
Fig 5.4 Is it still OK for large C number organisms?
Fundamental difference between Prokaryote and Eukaryote from the complexity point of view
p259 Footnote 57 Semigroup word problem
p262 Footnote 65 ‘Facts’ addendum
p265 As to the own concepts/tools (2) of ‘the theory of biological systems.’
Giardia 5SrRNA
p267 Catastrophe theory
p268 Footnote 77 Flame of fire addendum
p270 Punctuated equilibrium
p272 How do complex systems evolve?
p273 Landfall of animals
p274 Precursor elements to speak (cf footnote 90) another example
p275 Exaptation
Phylogeny of Metazoa
p276 Footnote 93 Equality of capabilities, addendum
p279 “The possibility to complexify is most widely open to the organisms that most preserve the
common ancestor’s features”
Bikonta controversy
p280 Footnote 102 PVC phyla addendum
p281 Following the wind and not missing good opportunities is much wiser.
p283 Chaperon reviews
p284 Proteins with definite equilibriums structures are not majority
p285 E coli without topoisomerase I
p286 In relation to population a sober story of environmental destruction should be paid due attention
p287 “Accomplishment of good things lies in long time.”
The maturity of civil society