TY  - BOOK
AU  - Casti, John L.
TI  - Would-be worlds : : how simulation is changing the frontiers of science
SN  - 9780471196938
U1  - 003.7 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York 
PB  -  John Wiley & sons
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1   Reality Bytes 1
Up and Down the Electronic Gridiron ■ Distant Suns and Planetary Nebula ■ A Gallery of Models ■ Models for All Occasions ■ The Philosopher's Stones ■ Semper Fidelis? ■ The Art of the Model ■ But Can We Trust It? ■ "Hypotheticality" ■ From Real Space to Cyberspace
Chapter 2   Pictures as Programs 37
That's Life? ■ The Genesis Machine ■ The Electronic Abacus ■ The Creative Computer ■ Worlds in Silico ■ The Emergence of "Emergence"
Chapter 3   The Science of Surprise 83
Problems and Paradoxes ■ The Fingerprints of the Complex ■ Illusions of the Mind » A Little Can Be a Lot ■ The Rules of the Game ■ Proofs and Programs ■ The Connections That Count ■ The Laws of Emergence
Chapter 4  Artificial Worlds 131
xiisiana Saturday Afternoon ■ Microworlds, Macrobehaviors-[ow Life Learns to Live ■ Tierra ■ Societies in Silicon ■ gment Calls ■ Building Silicon Worlds
Chapter 5   Reality of the Virtual	183
ide Information ■ The Moral of the Model ■ Limits to entific Knowledge ■ Computation UberAlles ■ Toward a sory of the Complex
References 217
Index 233


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