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Slides by George Ellis as presented at COSAC in July 2005 outlining:
- The nature of true complexity
- Bottom-up and top-down action
- Feedback control systems and information
- The nature of causality
- Emergence and the laws of nature
- The challenge to physics and chemistry
PDF of lecture slides: Download PDF (802KB)
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