Complexity and Chaos by Roger White

Complexity and Chaos by Roger WhiteBitrate: 24kBit/sType: mp3In the regular, clock-like world of Newtonian physics, randomness was equated with incomplete knowledge. But scientists in the late 20th century have found patterns in things formerly thought to be chaotic; their theories help explain the unstable irregular yet highly structured features of everyday experience. It now seems likely that randomness and chaos play an essential role in the evolution of the living world-and of intelligence itself.Roger White's discourse exists so far on the fringe of common knowledge that perhaps only a dozen people might understand it--and 11 of them could be lying. It talks of a conceptual revolution having its roots in four separate domains: fractals, chaos, self-organization, and emergent computation. Edwin Newman's calm narration handles the complex jargon with ease, and he sounds like he understands difficult concepts like the laws of thermodynamics. For the quotes by the brainy thinkers who wrote them, other narrators, using phony, contrived accents, speak on cue. Because the quotes contain such obscure terminology, the fake accents being attempted render many of the English words unintelligible.Filelist-----------------------SizeTitle1.6M01 Introduction.mp31015K 02 The Newtonian Paradigm.mp33.8M03 Strange Geometry.mp3670K04 Fractals.mp34.3M05 The Logistic Equation and Attractors.mp31.3M06 Universality.mp31.5M07 Time, Entropy and The Second Law.mp32.0M08 Equilibrium and Open Systems.mp31.4M09 History, Bifurcations and Cities.mp31.6M10 Non-linear Systems and Function.mp31.4M11 Life and Evolution.mp33.0M12 Automata and Self-Organisation.mp32.1M13 Phase Transitions, Adaptation and Landslides.mp31.1M14 Emergence and Complexity.mp3975K15 A New Biology.mp3Total 27.2M