Morphic (other)

	Morphic (other) Morphic may refer to: * Morphic field, a scientific hypothesis Morphic word Morphic (software) Morphism, a mathematical term See also Morph (other) Morph may refer to: Biology * Morph (zoology), a visual or behavioral difference between organisms of distinct populations in a species * Muller's morphs, a classification scheme for genetic mutations * "-morph", a suffix commonly used in tax ... {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Morphic Field Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author and parapsychology researcher who proposed the concept of morphic resonance, a conjecture which lacks mainstream acceptance and has been criticized as pseudoscience. He has worked as a biochemist at Cambridge University, Harvard scholar, researcher at the Royal Society, and plant physiologist for ICRISAT in India. Sheldrake's morphic resonance posits that "memory is inherent in nature" and that "natural systems ... inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind." Sheldrake proposes that it is also responsible for "telepathy-type interconnections between organisms." His advocacy of the idea offers idiosyncratic explanations of standard subjects in biology such as development, inheritance, and memory. Morphic resonance is not accepted by the scientific community and Sheldrake's proposals relating to it have been widely criticised. Critics cite a lack of evidence for morphic resonance and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Morphic Word In mathematics and computer science, a morphic word or substitutive word is an infinite sequence of symbols which is constructed from a particular class of endomorphism of a free monoid. Every automatic sequence is morphic. Definition Let ''f'' be an endomorphism of the free monoid ''A''∗ on an alphabet ''A'' with the property that there is a letter ''a'' such that ''f''(''a'') = ''as'' for a non-empty string ''s'': we say that ''f'' is prolongable at ''a''. The word : a s f(s) f(f(s)) \cdots f^(s) \cdots \ is a pure morphic or pure substitutive word. Note that it is the limit of the sequence ''a'', ''f''(''a''), ''f''(''f''(''a'')), ''f''(''f''(''f''(''a''))), ... It is clearly a fixed point of the endomorphism ''f'': the unique such sequence beginning with the letter ''a''.Lothaire (2011) p. 10Honkala (2010) p.505 In general, a morphic word is the image of a pure morphic word under a coding, that is, a morphism that maps letter to letter. If a morphic word is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Morphic (software) Morphic is an interface construction environment which uses graphical objects called "Morphs" for simplified GUI-building which allow for flexibility and dynamism. It was originally created for Self, but later, was ported to other programming languages like Squeak, JavaScript, Python, and Objective-C. History Morphic was originally developed by Randy Smith and John Maloney for the Self programming language. Usage Morphic is used in Lively Kernel, a web programming environment under MIT License (originally developed by Sun Microsystems) which is written in JavaScript and HTML5 / Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). On a higher abstraction level Morphic is also used in the enterprise performance management toolkit of doCOUNT, based on Ruby on Rails. In order to serve as basis for the Snap! (formerly BYOB), a Morphic environment called Morphic.js was written in JavaScript by Jens Mönig using only the HTML5 Canvas APIs. Morphic is the basis for the standard user interface of Squeak and Phar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Morphism In mathematics, particularly in category theory, a morphism is a structure-preserving map from one mathematical structure to another one of the same type. The notion of morphism recurs in much of contemporary mathematics. In set theory, morphisms are functions; in linear algebra, linear transformations; in group theory, group homomorphisms; in topology, continuous functions, and so on. In category theory, ''morphism'' is a broadly similar idea: the mathematical objects involved need not be sets, and the relationships between them may be something other than maps, although the morphisms between the objects of a given category have to behave similarly to maps in that they have to admit an associative operation similar to function composition. A morphism in category theory is an abstraction of a homomorphism. The study of morphisms and of the structures (called "objects") over which they are defined is central to category theory. Much of the terminology of morphisms, as well as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]