Synergetics — From Microscopic to Macroscopic Order: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Synergetics at Berlin, July 4–8, 1983

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Some Introductory Remarks on Synergetics....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Time Pattern Transitions in Biochemical Processes....Pages 6-16
Chaotic Behaviours Observed in Homogeneous Chemical Systems....Pages 17-26
Wave-Number Selection in Rotating Couette-Taylor flow....Pages 27-32
Periodic and Chaotic Patterns in Selected Quantum Optical Systems....Pages 33-46
Chaos in Lasers....Pages 47-57
The Falling Pencil and Superfluorescence: Macroscopic Indeterminacies After the Decay of Unstable Equilibria....Pages 58-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
On the Formation of Transient Order in Biological Membranes....Pages 68-79
Generalized Moment Description of Brownian Dynamics in Biological Systems....Pages 80-89
Nonequilibrium Current Noise Generated by Ordered Ion Transport Processes in Biological Membranes....Pages 90-98
The Molecular Machine of Photosynthesis — Physico-Chemical Aspects....Pages 99-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Polynucleotide Replication and Biological Evolution....Pages 106-121
The Evolution Strategy. A Mathematical Model of Darwinian Evolution....Pages 122-132
Multigene Families and their Implications for Evolutionary Theory....Pages 133-139
Evolution of Biothermodynamic Systems....Pages 140-149
Self-Organising Dynamic Models of Human Systems....Pages 150-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Some Applications of Basic Ideas and Models of Synergetics to Sociology....Pages 174-182
A Synergetic Approach to Energy-Oriented Models of Socio-Economic-Technological Problems....Pages 183-196
New Synergisms in Socio-Economic Systems: More Questions than Answers....Pages 197-206
On the Entropy of Economic Systems....Pages 207-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Death - From Microscopic to Macroscopic Disorder....Pages 220-228
Local Synaptic Modification Can Lead to Organized Connectivity Patterns in Associative Memory....Pages 229-242
The Organization of Action in Time....Pages 243-249
New Problems for an Old Brain - Synergetics, Cognition and Evolutionary Epistemology....Pages 250-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-259