Volume XVIII – In search of unity
Volume XVIII is special because it falls on the 20th anniversary of the Studium Generale’s interdisciplinary seminar. The principal idea of founding the Studium Generale was the creation of bridges between various fields of specialist knowledge and searching for universal laws of the surrounding world. During the past twenty years, the subject matter of the Studies has developed in many ways, but the main motto has been the search for unity.
The volume includes some of the lectures and introductions to discussions presented at the interdisciplinary seminar of professor Jan Mozrzymas’s Studium Generale in the academic year 2012/2013 concerning selected problems in the field of nature and culture.
The first part of the volume is dedicated to nature. It, among other things, poses the problem of whether a scientific Theory of Everything is possible. It discusses the results of research on the origin of life on Earth in the context of synthetic biology. It explains the experimental limits of the knowledge of the molecular structure of matter. Furthermore, it presents the connection between the unity of an organism with the environment and the Clock of Life, focusing on the influence of external factors on the organism’s systems and their interaction.
The second part of the volume is devoted to selected cultural issues. It presents the work of Antoni Gaudi and that lines are common elements of the Cosmos and art. The problem of interdisciplinarity in the humanities and social sciences is discussed. Moreover, it is shown that archaeological excavations of places of battles are a source of information about European culture, customs, and events. This part includes memories related to the 50th anniversary of computer science at the University of Wrocław.
