Beschreibung:
Introduction -- A theory for medium number systems -- Hierarchies -- The Janus-faced holon -- Scales and filters -- Sirens of certainty -- Origins of life as a complex medium number system -- A wrinkle in time: evolution by preadaptation -- Functional and structural boundaries -- The self-replicating hierarchy -- Scaling strategies -- Scale and complex systems -- Identifying the scale in community ecology -- Hierarchy as a context for modeling and simulation -- Diversity and connectedness -- Scale as an investigative tool