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Multiplicity and Interdisciplinarity

Essays in Honor of Eliano Pessa

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Editors:
  1. Gianfranco Minati

    1. Italian Systems Society, Milano, Italy

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Italian Systems Society, Milano, Italy

    Gianfranco Minati

About the editor

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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