该书是一本von Neumann关于“自复制自动机”的研究论文集，由von Neumann在密西根大学的助手Arthur Burk（大名鼎鼎的John Holland的博士导师）整理编辑。 这本书的意义不仅仅在于它实际上开创了“人工生命”、“细胞自动机”等多门复杂性研究的分支。更重要的是，该书将“自我复制”作为生命的一个本质特征加以数学建模的研究。而这套理论和可计算性理论、歌德尔定理以及热力学深深地联系到了一起。这一点也许对于我们研究复杂系统的人来说仍具有重要的意义。

姚治华，波士顿大学哲学博士，现为香港中文大学哲学系教授，主要研究领域为佛教哲学、印度哲学、宗教哲学和心智哲学，主要著作包括The Buddhist Theory of Self- Cognition(Routledge 2005), Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion（与Ithamar Theodor合编，Lexington Books 2014）, Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not(Bloomsbury Academic 2020)，在Journal of Indian Philosophy, Philosop...(展开全部)

This classic book on formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity has been updated to present theoretical concepts in a concise and straightforward manner with the increase of hands-on, practical applications. This new edition comes with Gradiance, an online assessment tool developed for computer science. Gradiance is the most advanced online assessment tool ...(展开全部)

This classic book on formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity has been updated to present theoretical concepts in a concise and straightforward manner with the increase of hands-on, practical applications. This new edition comes with Gradiance, an online assessment tool developed for computer science. Gradiance is the most advanced online assessment tool ...(展开全部)

作者：(印度)卡马拉(Kamala Krithivasan) (印度)拉玛(Rama R) 译者：孟宇龙 李健利 王宇华 合著者：冯晓宁 卡马拉，Kamala Krithivasan，马德拉斯大学博士，1975年进入印度理工学院马德拉斯分校( IIMT)参加工作。计算机科学与工程学院教授，1992-1995年担任院长，在IIMT有着30余年的教学和研究经验。她的研究方向包括形式语言理论、非传统模型计算(如DNA计算)、膜计算以及离散分层计算等。Kamala教授是1986年福尔布莱特学术奖金的获得者，同时还是印度国家工程学会的会员。 Rama R，1989年在安娜大学获得博士学位。进入印度理工学院马德拉斯分校(IIMT)担任副教授之前， 曾在安娜大学工程学院任教。2006年晋职为教授并任教至今。Rama教授拥有20余年的教学和研究经验，并且指导过四位研...(展开全部)

布兰登·桑德森，美国奇幻作家，其续写的罗伯特·乔丹的《时光之轮》系列，打败丹·布朗的新书《失落的密符》，空降《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜并成为头号畅销书。其处女作《诸神之城：伊岚翠》出版当年便获得Romantic Times奇幻史诗大奖，并连续入选2006、2007年美国科幻/奇幻界地位最高的新人奖项。布兰登才思敏捷，风格多样， 其代表作《迷雾之子》系列全球销量数百万，确立了他在新生代奇幻作家中的领军地位。

According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neurosci...(展开全部)

Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to retain and regain a wide readership by drawing on the themes and preoccupations of t...(展开全部)

According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neurosci...(展开全部)

Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious. What is the difference between the two? Uriah Kriegel offers the following answer: whatever else they may represent, conscious mental states always represent themselves (whereas unconscious ones do not, at least not in the right way). The book develops this 'self-representational' approach to consciousness along several di...(展开全部)