Information and Self-Organization: A Macroscopic Approach to Complex Systems

The widespread interest this book has found among professors, scientists and students working in a variety of fields has made a new edition necessary. I have used this opportunity to add three new chapters on recent developments. One of the most fascinating fields of modern science is cognitive science which has become a meet­ ing place of many disciplines ranging from mathematics over physics and computer science to psychology. Here, one of the important links between these fields is the c...