More than life itself : a synthetic continuation in relational biology /
A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories, lattices, and modelling, and the result is a sy...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Piscataway, NJ :
Ontos Verlag ; [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books,
2009.
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Colección: | Categories (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;
v. 1. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories, lattices, and modelling, and the result is a synthetic biology that provides a characterization of life. Biology extends physics. Life is not a specialization of mechanism, but an expansive generalization of it. Organisms and machines share some common features, but organisms are not machines. Life is defined by a relational closure that places it be. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 388 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-376) and index. |
ISBN: | 9783110321944 3110321947 |