Multiplicity and Interdisciplinarity: Essays in Honor of Eliano Pessa

This book presents the human, cultural, and scientific contributions of professor Eliano Pessa, who recently passed away. His research interests and activities were varied, some of which included quantum physics, cognitive science and psychology, systems science, artificial intelligence, and alpinism. They were never disciplinary-separated issues, but rather some coherent dimensions of his interests in life. He lived and not only practiced interdisciplinarity and multiple dimensions; he considered it unacceptable to do only one thing in life.
The contributors in this volume consider, discuss, interpret, and represent the multiplicity and interdisciplinarity experienced, lived and applied by Pessa. The chapters are inspired by, rebuild, and retrace such networked interests lived by him from the personal, cultural, and scientific points of view of the authors. This is true interdisciplinarity and usage of non-equivalences, honoring the richness of Pessa’s contributions.

Gianfranco Minati is founder and president of the Italian Systems Society. He is author, coauthor and editor of several academic publications. His current research interests focus on 1) Modelling Processes of Emergence by using Meta-Structures; 2) the Emerging of a Post-Bertalanffy Systemics; 3) the Dynamic Usage of Models (DYSAM) and Logical Openness; 4) Architecture and Design as the Design of Social Meta-structures to Influence Processes of Emergence in Social Systems; 5) and Prime Numbers Distribution in Number Theory.