Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
The Initial Low Gravitational Entropy of the Universe as the Origin of Design in Nature....Pages 3-16
On the Biological Origin of Design in Nature....Pages 17-41
Creativity in Nature....Pages 43-55
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Plato’s Pythagorean Cosmos: Order and Chaos in the Intelligence of Natural Design....Pages 59-85
War or Peace? Huxley and Kropotkin’s Battle Over the Design of Virtue....Pages 87-110
Free Will in God’s Dice Game....Pages 111-119
Does Biology Need a New Theory of Explanation? A Biological Perspective on Kant’s Critique of Teleological Judgment....Pages 121-139
Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Design: A Dynamic Approach....Pages 141-160
The Design of Morality....Pages 161-190
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The Best Mislaid Plans: A Religious Approach to the Question of the Planning of Reality....Pages 193-205
Judaism and Evolution in Four Dimensions: Biological, Spiritual, Cultural, and Intellectual....Pages 207-220
Random Natural Laws Versus Direct Trends: A Cabbalistic Interpretation Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Kook....Pages 221-237
The Identity of Designer and Design....Pages 239-254
In the Beginning There Was Lightning: Fulguro-Genesis and Eduard Loewenthal’s Religion of Religions....Pages 255-270
Structure and Creativeness: A Reinterpretation of the Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li 理 and Qi 氣....Pages 271-285
Evolution: The Biblical Account of Life’s Development....Pages 287-297
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Design and Disorder: Gould, Adaptationism and Evolutionary Psychiatry....Pages 301-324
Architecture and Design Among Plants and Animals: Convergent and Divergent Developmental Mechanisms....Pages 325-341
The Lingual Taste Papillae: A Delicate and Complicated Nature’s Design for Taste Modalities Perception....Pages 343-356
Divine Genesis, Evolution, and Astrobiology....Pages 357-367
Front Matter....Pages 299-300
Consistent Patterns of Statistical Distributions in Natural Ecological Communities: Lake Phytoplankton....Pages 369-384
Coupling of Growth, Differentiation and Morphogenesis: An Integrated Approach to Design in Embryogenesis....Pages 385-428
Interior Cell Design: VICKZ Proteins Mediate RNA Localization and Cell Function....Pages 429-443
Organic Codes and the Origin of Language....Pages 445-473
RETRACTED CHAPTER: Mechano-Sensing in Embryonic Biochemical and Morphologic Design: Evolutionary Perspectives on Emergence of Primary Organisms....Pages 475-504
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A Response to Darwin’s Dilemma: A-PR Cycles and the Origin of Design in Nature....Pages 507-522
The Synthetic Approach in Biology: Epistemic Notes for Synthetic Biology....Pages 523-537
Necessity and Freedom in Designs of Nature....Pages 539-557
Not All Designs Are Created Equal....Pages 559-572
Design of Living Systems in the Information Age: Brain, Creativity, and the Environment....Pages 573-591
Technological Design of Natural Exemplars....Pages 593-607
Trouble for Natural Design....Pages 609-622
Imagining a Theory of Everything for Adaptive Systems....Pages 623-638
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Hidden Order and the Origin of Complex Structures....Pages 641-652
What the Fine-Tuning Argument Shows (and Doesn’t Show)....Pages 653-669
The Continuous Increase in the Complexity of the Designed Structures of the Universe Is Described as Movement Against Maximum Entropy....Pages 671-682
Law, Order, and Probability....Pages 683-692
Design and Self-Organization....Pages 693-712
Development of Organisms as Self-Organization of Mechanically Stressed Macroscopic Designs....Pages 713-731
Playing God: The Historical Motivations of Artificial Life....Pages 733-748
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The Socially Constructed Natural Origins of Self-Organization....Pages 751-771
Complex Epidemics, Simplistic Tools: The Failure of AIDS Policy in Africa....Pages 773-791
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Summary and Conclusion of Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life ....Pages 795-798
Erratum....Pages E1-E3
Back Matter....Pages 799-812