On the foundations of systems
The project on the “Metaphysics of Emergence” has yielded a milestone. Scientific Council member Rainer E. Zimmermann published the first volume of a three-volumes book publication on the topic. The manuscript was finalised during Zimmermann’s stay in Vienna as Researcher in Residence last year. It deals with philosophical and mathematical…
Vienna 2013 | Ludwig von Bertalanffy Symposium
“Emergence: System – Evolution – Information” was the title of the second LvB Symposium held by our Center. It was organised in co-operation with the Austrian Computer Society Working Group Information Studies. About 25 guests attended the symposium which took place from 5 to 6 December. This time five experts…
About emergence
The Bertalanffy Center is co-organiser of a scientific event on the “Metaphysics of Emergence”, dedicated to philosophical foundations between the poles of sciences and arts. That event will be held from 6 to 8 June, 2013, in Ludwigshafen, Germany, in memory of Jan Robert Bloch. It is a co-operation with the Institut für Design…
Rainer E. Zimmermann on “Metaphysics of Emergence”
BCSSS Scientific Council member Rainer E. Zimmermann is invited to give a talk in the Vienna Jour Fixe “Simulation komplexer Systeme”, run by Manfred Füllsack. Zimmermann will talk about “Metaphysics of Emergence”. In the abstract he writes: “During the last fifteen years we can observe a progressive convergence of physics, biology,…
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