Downward causation
minds, bodies and matter
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Complex global patterns of behavior can often be explained by simple local interactions: for example, the complex shifting patterns of flocking birds can be generated by interactions involving only a bird and tis immediate neigbors. But can the large-scale patterns re-influence the local interactions that generated them? Is there an influence down-wards from the whole to its parts? Does the cell reorganize the biochemical processes inside it in a new way? Do psychosomatic illnesses exist?.....

Details

  • ISBN13 9788772888149
  • Pages 353
  • Released 2000
  • Publisher Aarhus University Press
  • Format Hardback
  • Edition 1
  • Language English