About the Contributors; Foreword; Contents; Introduction: How is the Universe that it Creates a Human Heart?; Chapter 1 A Research Program: A Science of Creative Processes; Chapter 2 On the Shoulders of Giants; Chapter 3 Mathematical Ideas: Bios and Biotic Feedback; Chapter 4 Bios Data Analysis; Chapter 5 The Biotic Pattern of Heart Rate Variation and Other Physiological Processes; Chapter 6 The Biotic Expansion of the Universe; Chapter 7 Novelty in DNA; Chapter 8 Bios Hypothesis; Chapter 9 Creation Theory; Chapter 10 Mathematical Genesis.
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This book focuses on a prototype of creative causal processes termed BIOS and how the concept can be applied to the physical world, in medicine and in social science. This book presents methods for identifying creative features in empirical data; studies showing biotic patterns in physical, biological, and economic processes; mathematical models of bipolar (positive and negative) feedback that generate biotic patterns. These studies support the hypothesis that natural processes are creative (not determined) and causal (not random) and that bipolar feedback plays a major role in their evolution.