Yearbook of the Artificial. Vol. 5

Not only scientific research, but also modern-day social life, is demonstrating a strongly renewed interest in 'chance' a theme that has accompanied the whole history of human thought. This volume brings together many of the topics in which chance, or randomness, plays a significant role.
The interest in randomness has been accentuated by the emergence of theories and concrete phenomena, which appear to be homing in upon the complex, many-sided, multidimensional and uncertain aspects of reality, such as the dynamics of living or economic systems, or of technological and political trends. Furthermore, in scientific and technological fields, there is a growing need for 'good' random sequences of numbers or symbols for use in simulation or testing activities, cryptographic methods, and so on.

Autorentext

The Editor: Massimo Negrotti is Full Professor of Methodology of Human Sciences and Director of IMES-LCA at the University of Urbino. He has published several books on artificiality, introducing the term naturoids as a key word for understanding man-machine relations.

Inhalt
Contents: Massimo Negrotti: Chance would be a fine thing Denis L. Baggi: The Use of Randomness in the Simulation of Creativity Danila Bertasio: And Narcissus returns to die in the arms of chance Aldo Celeschi: Chance: from problem to product Mariella Combi: Chance as a cultural event Mario Compiani: The ambivalent role of chance in modern scientific culture Maurizio Dapor: In praise of chance Masanori Funakura: Micro Rationality-Randomness and Macro Rationality in Tool Culture: Reciprocity Between Technological and Social intelligences José M. Galván: Creation and Casuality: The Case in Christian Theological Anthropology Giuseppe Lanzavecchia: Chance: a law of nature or a cultural construction? Stefano A. E. Leoni: Some questions on managing randomness by musical performer: about 'indeterminacy' (maybe: 'uncertainty') and 'cruces' (or knots, maybe: hubs?) Giorgio Mainini: Randomness: a course in survival Sabrina Moretti: Chance and probability in bioinformatics Ephraim Nissan: Chance vs. causality, and a taxonomy of explanations Giuseppe Padovani: Chance and Sense of Action Fumihiko Satofuka: Rationality and randomness in the skill formation of 'Takumi' as Japanese traditional culture.