Main description:

* Draws on work across multiple disciplines, from astrobiology and physics to linguistics and the social sciences, making it appealing to graduates from a wide variety of fields. * The first accessible introduction into the important work of philosopher Howard Pattee. * Aims to equip readers with new approaches to simple and complex systems theory to take into any respective discipline.

Contents:

Introduction: Sequences, Sequences, and Sequences

Chapter 1. The Problem of Sequentialization

Chapter 2. The Emergence of Constraint

Chapter 3. The Grammar of Interaction

Chapter 4. The Grammar of Extension

Chapter 5. The Grammar of Abstraction

Chapter 6. The Conundrum of Replication

Chapter 7. The Threshold of Complication

Chapter 8. The Institution of Sequences

Chapter 9. The Continuum of Abstraction

Appendix: Just Enough Molecular Biology