[PDF.60fq] Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life (Complexity in Ecological Systems)

Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life (Complexity in Ecological Systems)

[PDF.ry51] Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life (Complexity in Ecological Systems)

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 | #872140 in Books |  Robert Rosen |  2005-07-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.96 x.64 x6.30l,.97 | File type: PDF | 285 pages

 | Life Itself A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature Origin and Fabrication of Life

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Thought provoking|By Anne van Rossum|Life itself is a thought provoking book on complex systems. This is a gem of a book compared to for example Bertalanffy's book on general systems theory which I found very disappointing. It uses category theory to formalize notions on the interaction of "organisms" with their own distant future. Anticipatory mechanisms are in some way defyin| |"Drawing on the languages of organizational theory, cybernetics, and category theory, Rosen questions the classic machine metaphor of life.... Once formulated, Rosen uses his concept of life to revisit relational biology, molecular biology, evolution, and chem

Why are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science. The answers to this question would allow humanity to make an enormous leap forward in our understanding of the principles at work in our world.

For centuries, it was believed that the only scientific approach to the question "What is life?" must proceed from the Cartesian metaphor (org...

You easily download any file type for your device.Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life (Complexity in Ecological Systems)   |  Robert Rosen. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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