Download or read book Il Tao della fisica written by Fritjof Capra and published by Adelphi Edizioni spa. This book was released on 2014-02-19T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Più volte, nel corso di questo secolo, le scoperte della fisica sperimentale hanno gettato gli scienziati stessi in uno stato di grave sconcerto, quale espresse una volta Einstein: «Tutti i miei tentativi di adattare i fondamenti teorici della fisica a queste [nuove] acquisizioni fallirono completamente. Era come se ci fosse mancata la terra sotto i piedi, e non si vedesse da nessuna parte un punto fermo su cui poter costruire». Con le scoperte di questi ultimi anni, con il proliferare delle particelle sino a più di duecento, non solo quel «punto fermo su cui poter costruire» invocato da Einstein si è ancora di più allontanato, ma sono stati messi in discussione i presupposti secondo i quali quel «punto fermo» dovrebbe esserci: tale espressione infatti rimanda alla concezione di una materia composta di mattoni fondamentali e univocamente localizzata – ed è proprio questa la concezione che oggi è in dubbio. Ma qual è allora la nuova concezione che emerge dalle scoperte più recenti sulla costituzione della materia? Un fisico americano, Fritjof Capra, ha tracciato in questo libro, che ha avuto subito una grandissima fortuna, innanzitutto un quadro esemplarmente chiaro delle acquisizioni ultime della fisica, mettendole in parallelo con antichi testi mistici indù e cinesi. Senza indulgere a una qualche armonizzazione forzata, Capra ha però osservato con acutezza come certi presupposti di quei testi risuonassero con certe ipotesi della fisica dei nostri anni, per esempio con la cosiddetta «teoria del bootstrap» o con la teoria dei quark. Se questa risonanza esiste non è certo perché i sapienti orientali pensassero in termini di fisica subatomica, né perché i fisici attuali si siano convertiti alla mistica orientale. Il fenomeno è un altro: per irresistibile spinta delle sue scoperte stesse, la scienza occidentale si è allontanata e continua ad allontanarsi sempre di più dalla cornice entro cui è nata, che è quella cartesiana di una divisione invalicabile fra mente e natura. Così, idee come quella della «fondamentale interconnessione della natura», che sono il fondamento di tanta parte del pensiero orientale, o immagini come quella della «danza di Siva» cominciano ad acquistare un preciso significato nel linguaggio della fisica di oggi, là per esempio dove essa pone l’accento sulla «compenetrazione». Si tratta di un immenso mutamento di prospettiva epistemologica: il raro merito di questo libro di Capra è nell’averlo saputo esporre per la prima volta in modo organico, parlando simultaneamente agli scienziati e al generico lettore intelligente, in un felice tentativo di «far capire che la fisica moderna va ben al di là della tecnologia, che la via – il Tao – della fisica può essere una via con un cuore». "Il Tao della fisica" è apparso per la prima volta nel 1975.
Download or read book Methods Models Simulations and Approaches Towards a General Theory of Change Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Systems Science written by Gianfranco Minati and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of changing related to a wide variety of specific disciplinary aspects. Classical attempts to deal with them, based on generalising approaches used to study the movement of bodies and environmental influence, have included ineffective reductionistic simplifications. Indeed changing also relates, for instance, to processes of acquisition and varying properties such as for software; growing and aging biological systems; learning/cognitive systems; and socio-economic systems growing and developing through innovations. Some approaches to modelling such processes are based on considering changes in structure, e.g., phase-transitions. Other approaches are based on considering (1) periodic changes in structure as for processes of self-organisation; (2) non-periodic but coherent changes in structure, as for processes of emergence; (3) the quantum level of description. Papers in the book study the problem considering its transdisciplinary nature, i.e., systemic properties studied per se and not within specific disciplinary contexts. The aim of these studies is to outline a transdisciplinary theory of change in systemic properties. Such a theory should have simultaneous, corresponding and eventually hierarchical disciplinary aspects as expected for a general theory of emergence. Within this transdisciplinary context, specific disciplinary research activities and results are assumed to be mutually represented as within a philosophical and conceptual framework based on the theoretical centrality of the observer and conceptual non-separability of context and observer, related to logically open systems and Quantum Entanglement. Contributions deal with such issues in interdisciplinary ways considering theoretical aspects and applications from Physics, Cognitive Science, Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Architecture, Philosophy, Music and Social Systems.
Download or read book For the Best You Need Nothing written by Gian Carlo Bina and published by Bryce Cullen Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Italian author Gian Carlo Bina has been in constant search of a credible answer to the following questions: • Who are we? • Why are we on Earth? • Where do we come from? • Where are we going? Perhaps most interesting is the fact that he has done so while working at and managing numerous companies following his studies at Harvard Business School - not while in a monastery. His habit of analyzing problems while looking for solutions has had an immensely positive influence with respect to the way he has dealt with these fundamental questions. For the Best, You Need Nothing: All You Need Is You houses many eye-opening ideas and suggestions concerning one's life and is heavily based on Bina's firsthand experiences. Its ideals first discussed many years ago at a restaurant in Paris, it stresses the importance of improving the way in which we prepare one another for life on Earth and implores us to do so with a free and independent approach - not by solely accepting, without cool analysis, any theory that is offered to us, regardless of how religious or civilian it may be. In spite of difficult times, after reading Gian Barlo Bina's lifelong work of heart, passion, and most of all, genuine care and love, one will surely walk away with an improved sense of identity and an enhanced quality of life here on Earth.
Download or read book Atti Della Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi Anno LXII N 3 written by and published by Lucia Ronchi. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Controversies in the Contemporary World written by Adriano Fabris and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Marcelo Dascal’s theory of controversies, this volume includes studies in the theory of controversies, studies of the history of controversy forms and their evolution, and case-studies of particular historical and current controversies. The purpose of this volume is to identify a taxonomy of controversies and also to sense a line of development for the phenomenon of controversies itself. At the same time, we want to ask ourselves about the impact and the spread of controversies in the contemporary world, eminently intended as a heuristic element facilitating knowledge. For all these reasons, the fundamental aim of the volume is to provide the reader with a selection of current theoretical and practical perspectives on controversies, and to offer a broad picture of the complex range of definitions, meanings and practices connected to them.
Download or read book Quiete e visione profonda written by Amadeo Solé-Leris and published by Pariyatti. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Cominciai a seguire l'insegnamento del Buddha dal momento in cui capii che il vero e proprio non è una religione - una fede in una Divinità e in una relazione con Essa, comunque articolata -, ma un umanesimo e, più concretamente, un sistema etico-psicologico che propone metodi pratici per raggiungere, qui e ora, la piena realizzazione delle proprie potenzialità benefiche. In Occidente, l'insegnamento del Buddha è stato più volte 'interpretato' in senso più o meno teistico: il Buddha come Dio o come sua rappresentazione/manifestazione. Ma quando mi resi conto che il Buddha (il Risvegliato) non pretendeva essere un Dio o un profeta, bensì esempio supremo di ciò che l'essere umano può diventare, mi dissi: “Questo sì che ha un senso: il Risvegliato insegna agli altri, come risvegliarsi". Questo testo vuole contribuire alla comprensione della natura pratica e concreta dell'insegnamento del Buddha, il cui cuore è l'esercizio meditativo. Vi sono delineate le sue caratteristiche essenziali, per offrire al lettore non specializzato un'introduzione generale, che possa incoraggiare a farne esperienza. “Nel 1972 in Sri Lanka (...) ebbi la fortuna di leggere le parole del Buddha: la spiegazione di quello che lui stesso aveva sperimentato, e di come anche altri possano arrivare alla stessa esperienza. E così scoprii la straordinaria semplicità e la profonda concretezza del sentiero di quiete e visione profonda, da lui indicato. Mi dedicai, quindi, allo studio dell'antica lingua pali e dei testi. Nel 1974 feci un corso di meditazione Vipassana con il maestro indo-birmano S.N. Goenka; questa pratica dell'insegnamento del Buddha mi convinse ad accettare la sua validità , come guida di vita, e ad impegnarmi da allora al continuativo esercizio meditativo di Vipassana. Ben sapendo che è una strada lunga, a ogni passo mi appare giusta e benefica."
Download or read book FENG SHUI written by Pierfrancesco Ros and published by Editoriale Delfino. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feng Shui, the art of Wind and Water, emerged 3,000 years ago in China and gradually evolved over time as new theories and new models were introduced. While its development was driven by the primary needs of survival and defence, it would later be enhanced with concepts relating to culture, philosophy, the climate and the territory. Thanks to the work of Pierfrancesco Ros’ Accademia Italiana di Architettura Feng Shui, Feng Shui has been further expanded with ancient and modern knowledge relating to environmental well-being. Feng Shui Architecture offers the reader project guidelines for use in town planning, architecture, interior design and ecodesign. The first volume examines the key issues of the earth way and the sky way. The second and final volume, produced with the contribution of the Accademia di Psico Architettura, looks at the man way, establishing a global approach to various types of environmental analysis and design for a complete understanding of Holistic Architecture.
Download or read book Encoding the Atomic Nucleus written by Vittorio Naso and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work profoundly change the way we conceive chemical processes, giving physical meaning to the atomic orbital, considered today a pure mathematical entity. The problem of the origin of life leads us to this new vision of atomic processes as forces us to include, in the study of chemistry, the spatial and temporal parameters of Relativity Theory.
Download or read book Myth Chaos and Certainty written by Rosolino Buccheri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a metaphor of the general behavior of nature (from which man derives) within the fluctuating equilibrium between the opposite tendencies to cohesion and shredding; a circularity revealing an indefinite and probably never conclusive run-up of human beings to the knowledge of nature; an analysis that demonstrates any theoretical/practical impossibility to formulate absolute certainties, since it depicts a situation in which man finds himself hovering between a rational way of living and the contradictory modus operandi of mythos. All that, within a society where the powerful communication and transportation technologies give rise to conflicts and fragmentations, where anyone’s will to self-distinguishing is enhanced by highlighting any small difference and obscuring any large similarity. The main difference between this book and existing ones stems from its interdisciplinary nature, particularly because it establishes a close connection between three, apparently so different disciplines—cosmology, life sciences, and sociology—compared with respect to their increasing complexity laws, giving rise to always more chaotic configurations.
Download or read book Destruction and Creation written by Mary Ann Mattoon and published by Daimon. This book was released on 1999 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 14th Congress for Analytical Psychology was held 23-28 August 1998 in the ancient city of Florence, Italy. The theme, 'Destruction and Creation: Personal and Cultural Transformations', is especially appropriate to the Italian setting, with that nation's history of destruction, both from nature and from human activity, and its tradition -- especially in Florence -- of creative individuals and institutions. The theme is fitting, also, to the context of Jungian psychology, with its emphasis on these and other pairs of opposites, with their integral role in psychic wholeness. Acknowledging, also, that destruction is indispensable to creation, some Jungians prefer the term 'creative unconscious' to the traditional 'collective unconscious'.
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Download or read book Governing Turbulence Risk and Opportunities in the Complexity Age written by Guglielmo Chiodi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is composed of several articles that explore complexity in its most varied aspects. The solution of contemporary problems, whatever they may be, requires a multifaceted vision, far beyond the reductionist perspective. The study of complex systems, however, does not have the capacity to offer ready answers to the challenges of humanity. On the contrary, it points to the increase in uncertainty, the need to control variables, and uncertainty. This does not mean, therefore, that we should simply ignore the social, economic, and political phenomena that are all around us. What this book demonstrates is the importance of knowledge being disseminated, and it is imperative that different sciences exchange ideas, theories, and breakthroughs.
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Download or read book Modelling Cyber Security written by Umberto Gori and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Operational Network Intelligence: Today and Tomorrow, Venice, Italy, 5-7 February 2009"--Title page verso.
Download or read book Outdoor Adventure Education written by Nina S. Roberts and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overall focus, scope, and purpose of this Special Issue on outdoor adventure is to provide the current and anticipated future trends, offer innovative ideas for new programs, support decision making for managers to move plans and intentions into action, inspire pioneering staff training and leadership development, incite policy reviews and revisions, promote resource (re)allocation where needed, and stimulate culture shifts among outdoor leaders and managers. Furthermore, this Special Issue is situated within the existing literature by depicting major trends in the field, exploring organizational issues and successes, identifying gaps between research and practice, and formulating solutions to some of the field’s most pressing challenges. Of particular interest were manuscripts reporting the following: • Adventure education across diverse cultures; • Innovative partnerships for experiential education outdoors; • Land management agencies working with adventure education programs; • Leadership and/or management issues and challenges; • Programming advances, participation trends; • Recruitment and retention of diverse staff, workforce enhancement; • Social groups/identity and outdoor spaces (e.g., people of color and outdoor adventure; women in the outdoors—where have we been, where are we going?; LGBTQ trends and future directions; youth and outdoor adventure); • Socioeconomic factors and solutions; • Technology influences and adventure education; • Working with schools/school districts and being in sync with curriculum needs, supporting transportation challenges, etc.
Download or read book Psicoshiatsu L arte di cambiare te stesso written by Luigi Barreca and published by ibookpad. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E’ il racconto del mio incontro con lo Shiatsu e di come ha cambiato la mia vita grazie alle tecniche e gli strumenti millenari che, quest’antica arte per la salute, mi ha donato. Poi l’esperienza mi ha portato verso tecniche psicologiche occidentali che ho integrato nel percorso, rendendo lo Shiatsu ancora più efficace. Ho suddiviso il libro in tre capitoli tanti quanti sono stati i passi essenziali, del mio percorso evolutivo, che mi hanno permesso di affrontare e superare le difficoltà avverse della vita: nella salute, nelle relazioni, nella professione. Nel quarto e nel quinto capitolo imparerai le tecniche orientali millenarie che mi hanno guidato e che ho descritto nel libro e che aiuteranno anche te a trasformare la tua vita . IMMAGINA COME SAREBBE LA TUA VITA DEDITA ALLA TUA TRASFORMAZIONE E A QUELLA DEGLI ALTRI !! “Grazie allo Shiatsu ho recuperato il mio corpo, le mie emozioni, la mia unità. Ed è proprio per questo che voglio raccontarti questa mia storia d’amore. Lo Shiatsu parte soprattutto dal cuore perché è dal cuore che mi è stato donato ed è con il cuore che lo voglio restituire.”
Download or read book Distributed World written by Simone Malacrida and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the last of an energy trilogy, outlines a futuristic scenario of a social, energy and political model different from the current one. All aspects that contribute to determining the distributed model through the establishment of the two main pillars, the technological-energy pillar, given by digital energies, and the socio-economic pillar, called the "blue society," are carefully analyzed. A look far beyond the usually proposed predictions of a few decades is constantly present in the writing, and obvious connections are identified between a system of thought and the resulting shared rules that punctuate human life, completing the narrative of a new social structure for a finally sustainable future development.
