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  <title><![CDATA[At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity]]></title>
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  <default_description>The best treatment I have yet encountered about how order emerges naturally -- and possibly even necessarily -- out of chaos. Profoundly important, and considerably more informed than better-known pop-science treatments of chaos theory. Very highly recommended.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stuart Kauffman]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[How is it possible in an entropic universe, in which natural systems progress inexorably toward disorder, that life should continually move in the opposite direction? <br/><br/>History may well remember the science of complexity and self-organization as a greater revolution than quantum mechanics ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44014388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is really good, though needs to be taken with a grain of salt since its super theoretical. Basically Kauffman is trying to simulate with mathematical models what occurs in evolution. He tries to simulate adaptive mutations and such (in genetic terms) with a mathematical formula/model. Its ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68690250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rarely do I gain such insight from a book, but Kauffman was able to tie together all my interests in biology, economics, anthropology, into a single unified theory of spontaneous order/self-organization. <br/><br/>Although the concept were world-view changing, the context, outside of some beautifu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68275072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kaufmann's writing style is a bit cliched and repetitive, but he's very clear. Even I could understand his explanations of peptide molecules, biochemistry, etc. and how these concepts of life-origin theories relate to other systems mathematically and otherwise. And his idea here is definitely worth ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65868935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I read this book, it appeared to be a series of anecdotes about how certain chemical systems appear to spontaneously &quot;self-organize&quot;, and then some anecdotes about simplistic computer models the author created to simulate the &quot;primordial soup&quot; where life may have begun.  None ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34039114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dense read, fascinating concept exploring the fundamental laws of the universe.  Postulates a counter-weighted theory to the law of entropy or disorder, but gets pretty tough to read about halfway through as it delves deeply into the math and science backing the theory up.  A must-read for biologi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24726943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kaufman is one of the leading scientists from the Santa Fe Institute. The man is brilliant, which can make it hard to keep up with his explanations of his investigations into the science of complexity. I had to work hard to understand much of his thinking, but it was worth it.  His explanation of se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27897954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting speculative read.  Discusses the order in the universe, <br/>particularly that pertaining to evolution and self-organization, in the general as well as the biological sense.  Examines the concepts of order and chaos by means of various models.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing exploration of the science of emergence, this is a challenging read which I've been digesting in small pieces and return to from time to time. Math comprehension helps a lot!]]></body>
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