CHAOS, INFORMATION, AND THE FUTURE OF PHYSICS

The main part of the book consists of the dialogue between physicist Otto Rössler, and artist and AI researcher Bill Seaman with the commentaries disclosing information perspective by information scientist Mark Burgin and Bill Seaman. In this dialogue, Rössler and Seaman discuss concepts surrounding Rössler's major research over his lifetime. Additionally, each research topic is linked to the set of papers and books published by Rössler and other related collaborative researchers. The goal is to delineate an intellectual directory for future researchers. The discussed topics being transdisciplinary in nature cross many fields in science and technology. A comprehensive historical bibliography is also included. The work explores many fields germane to theoretical science as Rössler was often quite early in developing these fields and interacting with many famous scientists. This work pertains to information theory, which has often been left out of the historical literature.

Burgin as an expert in information theory is providing an information perspective on this dialogue adding historical discussion and relevant scientific and mathematical underpinnings of the discussed ideas. His observations are complemented by Seaman, who presents the synthesis of artistic and scientific outlook.

Addendum contains articles describing Rössler's relationships to colleagues from multiple fields, a parable by Rössler and papers related to Rössler's research and theoretical models of processes in the universe.

Contents:

• Preface
• Second-Order Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chemical Evolution
• The Brain Equation
• Tolerance Attractors
• Personogenetic Function Change
• Exteriority
• Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction
• Spiral Chaos and Hyperchaos
• Chaotic Hierarchy
• Indistinguishability
• Endophysics
• A Few Remarks on Aging
• Lampsacus
• Gravitational Redshift and Relativity
• Speed of Light, c: A Global Constant
• Black Holes
• Fractal Dimensionality of the Cosmos
• Cryodynamics
• Restored Cosmology
• The Problem of Color and the Now
• Addendum:
  • Recollections: A Professor with Bananas in His Hands (Ali Sanayei)
  • Seaman's Relations with Rössler (Bill Seaman)
  • The Role of Friendship in Science (Otto E Rössler)
  • Siegfried Zielinski in Conversation With Otto E Rössler (Siegfried Zielinski)
  • Media Theory and the Science of the Internal Observer (Peter Weibel)
  • The Tale of the Whale (Otto E Rössler)
  • Endo-Turtles Can Notice Interfacial Shifts and May Look for an Escape Button (Susie Vrobel)
  • A Physics of the Unique: A Miniature for Otto E Rössler (Siegfried Zielinski)
  • Matter–Antimatter Asymmetry: Transparent Mathematical Models (Mark Burgin)
  • Macro and Micro Relativity (Otto E Rössler and P Weibel)
  • Antifriction: A New Effect in Nature (Otto E Rössler and R Movassagh)
  • Complexity Decomplexified: A List of 200+ Research Results and Ideas Explored by Otto Rössler over a Lifetime
• O E Rössler's Bibliography
• General Bibliography
• Index

Readership: Researchers and general public in information studies, including Philosophy, Physical Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, Theoretical Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Neural Networks, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Biology, Neuroscience, Nonlinear Science, Chaos & Dynamical Systems, Theoretical Physics.

Key Features:

• Rössler's work is unique and in many areas deserves to be included in the broader history of science in general and information studies in particular
• The discussed topics provide a fruitful perspective for the future development of physics and related areas
• In an accessible form, the book presents a broad landscape of science and scientific community