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020			_a9780471196938
082			_a003.7 _bCAS
100			_aCasti, John L. _95412
245			_aWould-be worlds : _bhow simulation is changing the frontiers of science
260			_aNew York _b John Wiley & sons _c1997
300			_axii,242p.
505			_aCONTENTS 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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891			_aGratis from Dr. Bharat Dave
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