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Self-Organization as a Creative Process Philosophical Aspects

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In the Russian Philosophical Encyclopaedia (1989) we read

“Are life and mind indeed important in the working of existence?” (Wheeler, 1988, p. 125)

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Nalimov, V.V. (1994). Self-Organization as a Creative Process Philosophical Aspects. In: Mishra, R.K., Maaß, D., Zwierlein, E. (eds) On Self-Organization. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45726-5_17

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