Multiplicity and Interdisciplinarity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Eliano Pessa Tribute to Three Voices

   • Giordano Bruno, Franco Eugeni, Alberto Trotta

   Pages 1-5

3. The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Human Interactions

   • Mario R. Abram

   Pages 7-16

4. Interdisciplinary Systems Thinking for a New Scientific Paradigm: Toward a Re-founding of Human Values

   • Sergio Barile, Marialuisa Saviano

   Pages 17-39

5. Autonomous Systems and the Place of Biology Among Sciences. Perspectives for an Epistemology of Complex Systems

   • Leonardo Bich

   Pages 41-57

6. Information from Structure: How Networks Face Biological Complexity

   • Alessandro Giuliani

   Pages 59-69

7. From Predictability to the Theories of Change

   • Ignazio Licata

   Pages 71-83

8. The Reaction of Complex Systems to Symmetry Breaking Events: A Mathematical Simulation Model for Neurosciences and Social Sciences

   • Pier Luigi Marconi, Maria Petronilla Penna

   Pages 85-92

9. What Would I Propose to Eliano to Continue Our Collaboration: Validity Regimes, Edges, Interfaces, and Waves of Complexity

   • Gianfranco Minati

   Pages 93-119

10. The Use of tDCS Combined with CET Training for the Treatment of Pathological Dependence

    • Natale Salvatore Bonfiglio, Roberta Renati, Maria Pietronilla Penna

    Pages 121-133

11. Representing Behavior, Consciousness, Learning: Will a Purely Classical Artificial Intelligence Be Enough?

    • Mario Rasetti

    Pages 135-157

12. On Randomness and Origin of Life

    • Roberto Serra

    Pages 159-166

13. Deep Learning and Knowledge Generalization

    • Guido Tascini

    Pages 167-188

14. Reasoning About Reason: Why Philosophy Should Now Abandon Monism in Favor of Pluralism

    • Lucia Urbani Ulivi, Primavera Fisogni

    Pages 189-206

15. Neural Networks and Many-Body Systems

    • Giuseppe Vitiello

    Pages 207-224

16. Minds and Robots: An Impassable Border

    • Paola Zizzi, Massimo Pregnolato

    Pages 225-251

17. Back Matter

    Pages 253-258

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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.

• Information and Communication Technology
• Interdisciplinary thinking
• Viable System
• Big Data
• Complex systems
• Neural networks
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine learning
• Human interactions

• Italian Systems Society, Milano, Italy

  Gianfranco Minati

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.

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