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The author or concept searched is found in the following controversies.
Disputed term/author/ism Author Vs Author
 Entry
 Reference
Various Authors Kauffman Vs Various Authors Dennett I 311
Monod / Francois Jacob: Thesis: nature is a "crafter" (> bricolage). Opportunism, acomplete lack of direction and coincidence prevail. (KauffmanVs).   Kauffman: also a blind crafter finds the forced moves.
I Kauffman 286
Life / Self Organisation / Kauffman: we are not just pieced together, not merely molecular ad hoc devices. KauffmanVsGould, VsMonod, VsJacob, VsBricolage. We are children of necessity. At home in the universe.


Kauffman I 277
Gradualism/KauffmanVsGradualism/Kauffman: funktioniert bei zwei Modellen nicht: 1. maximal verdichtete Rechnerprogramme. Da diese völlig regellos sind, (keine Redundanz) ist die Fehlertoleranz gleich null. Jede Änderung wird das Ergebnis randomisieren.
2. NK-Landschaften: wenn sich die Zahl der Kopplungen K = N 1 annähert, gibt es immer weniger Regelmäßigkeit.
Kau II
Stuart Kauffman
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity New York 1995

Kauffman I
St. Kauffman
At Home in the Universe, New York 1995
German Edition:
Der Öltropfen im Wasser. Chaos, Komplexität, Selbstorganisation in Natur und Gesellschaft München 1998

Dennett I
D. Dennett
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, New York 1995
German Edition:
Darwins gefährliches Erbe Hamburg 1997

Dennett II
D. Dennett
Kinds of Minds, New York 1996
German Edition:
Spielarten des Geistes Gütersloh 1999

Dennett III
Daniel Dennett
"COG: Steps towards consciousness in robots"
In
Bewusstein, Thomas Metzinger Paderborn/München/Wien/Zürich 1996

Dennett IV
Daniel Dennett
"Animal Consciousness. What Matters and Why?", in: D. C. Dennett, Brainchildren. Essays on Designing Minds, Cambridge/MA 1998, pp. 337-350
In
Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild Frankfurt/M. 2005

The author or concept searched is found in the following disputes of scientific camps.
Disputed term/author/ism Pro/Versus
 Entry
 Reference
Spencer/Social Darwinism Pro Den I 550
(Herbert Spencer): Spencerians: J. Monod, M.Eigen: molecular functions can be determined only by environmental selection.