Determinism, Holism, and Complexity

Complexity and emergence of meaning.- A geometric optics experiment to simulate the betatronic motion.- Some remarks on the arrow of time and the notion of information.- How real is the quantum world?.- Decoherence and Classical Behaviour in Quantum Mechanics.- Scaling Laws: Microscopic and Macroscopic Behavior.- Measure of diffusion entropy of weak turbulence.- Complexity in physics of an adhesive tape.- Reflections about the time arrow.- The Big Computer. Complexity and Computability in Physical Universe.- On the Uniqueness or Multiplicity of Physical Theories.- An interplay between determinism and one-parameter semigroups.- From dynamical systems to complex systems.- Shape and size in biology and medicine.- Assessment of the quality of waters and the environment.- Synchronization of neocortical interneurons.- The fractal borderland.- Emergent properties and complexity for biological theories.- Ignoring complex interactions in natural ecosystems.- A compression algorithm as a complexity measure on DNA sequences.- Reductionism and history: the biology between Scylla and Charybdis.- A characterization for a set of trinucleotides to be a circular code.- Deterministic and random components of over time evolution.- Toward creating life in a test-tube.- Tubulin and the complexity of life.- Phylogenies and the new evolutionary synthesis.- Cell system complexity and biological evolution.- Self-organization and prebiotic environment.- James and Freud on psychical determinism.- Probabilistic aspects in George D. Birkhoff’s work.- The metamorphosis of holism.- Early approaches to the management of complexity.- The dignity of the natural sciences.- Holism: some historical aspects.- Towards a history of complexity.