This book presents the human, cultural, and scientific contributions of professor Eliano Pessa, who recently passed away. His research interests and activities were varied, some of which included quantum physics, cognitive science and psychology, systems science, artificial intelligence, and alpinism. They were never disciplinary-separated issues, but rather some coherent dimensions of his interests in life. He lived and not only practiced interdisciplinarity and multiple dimensions; he considered it unacceptable to do only one thing in life.
The contributors in this volume consider, discuss, interpret, and represent the multiplicity and interdisciplinarity experienced, lived and applied by Pessa. The chapters are inspired by, rebuild, and retrace such networked interests lived by him from the personal, cultural, and scientific points of view of the authors. This is true interdisciplinarity and usage of non-equivalences, honoring the richness of Pessa's contributions.

A critical examination of the work of interdisciplinary scholar Eliano Pessa led by his colleagues in the Italian Systems Society Explores his achievements in systems theory, quantum physics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence Presents unique, personal and scientific points of view inspired by the multiplicity and interdisciplinarity of Eliano Pessa

Autorentext

Gianfranco Minati is founder and president of the Italian Systems Society. He is author, coauthor and editor of several academic publications. His current research interests focus on 1) Modelling Processes of Emergence by using Meta-Structures; 2) the Emerging of a Post-Bertalanffy Systemics; 3) the Dynamic Usage of Models (DYSAM) and Logical Openness; 4) Architecture and Design as the Design of Social Meta-structures to Influence Processes of Emergence in Social Systems; 5) and Prime Numbers Distribution in Number Theory.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Tribute to three voices.- Chapter 2. The role of Information and Communication Technologies in Human Interactions.- Chapter 3. Interdisciplinary systems thinking for a new scientific paradigm: toward a re-founding of human values.- Chapter 4. Autonomous Systems and the Place of Biology Among Sciences.- Chapter 5. Information from structure: how networks face biological complexity.- Chapter 6. From Predictability to the Theories of Change.- Chapter 7. The reaction of complex systems to symmetry breaking events. A mathematical simulation model for neurosciences and social sciences.- Chapter 8. What would I propose to Eliano to continue our collaboration: validity regimes, edges, interfaces, and waves of complexity.- Chapter 9. The use of tDCS combined with CET training for the treatment of pathological dependence.- Chapter 10. Representing Behavior, Consciousness, Learning: will a purely classical Artificial Intelligence be enough?.- Chapter 11. On Randomness and Origin of Life.- Chapter 12. Deep learning and knowledge generalization.- Chapter 13. Reasoning About Reason Why Philosophy Should Now Abandon Monism in Favor of Pluralism.- Chapter 14. Neural networks and many-body systems .- Chapter 15. Minds and Robots: An Impassable Border.