La rete della vita. Perché l'altruismo è alla base dell'evoluzione

¡Que poderosa síntesis! Este libro tiene 20 años de escrito y casi todo lo que dice sobre los sistemas complejos y su relación con la vida, la cognición y la sociedad debe ser - y posiblemente será - verdad por mucho tiempo. Conocí este libro tras una recomendación de una amiga en un club de lectura Leggi tutto

Capra presents an anti-reductionist, and anti-deterministic (molecular v. integrative, holistic v. mechanistic) view of life. Life is not about atoms only, but patterns of organization and networks of mutually beneficial parts. He uses the term autopoiesis (self-organization) to describe a process w Leggi tutto

The content of this was a really interesting fusion of philosophy, history, and science that is unlike anything I've read before. I did struggle, however, with the flow of the writing itself. I've read books with denser content or even a more elaborate prose style that were easier to get into the fl Leggi tutto

This was an excellent book, one of the best ones I have read in over a year, with new ideas and stimulated imagination. I learned a great deal about cybernetics, learned to view evolution from a different perspective, and see how all of "life" can be broken down into cohesive sequence of chemical un Leggi tutto

Un excelente libro que aborda diversos temas (sistemas complejos, cibernética, ecología, caos, biología, ecosistemas) para integrar un marco conceptual de ecología profunda.

"Humanity did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves"

Ti apre la mente. Dopo averlo letto guarderai tutta la natura che ti circonda in modo diverso.