Life itself : a comprehensive inquiry into the nature, origin, and fabrication of life /
"For centuries, it was believed that the only scientific approach to the question "What is life?" must proceed from the Cartesian metaphor (organism as machine). Classical approaches in science, which also borrow heavily from Newtonian mechanics, are based on a process called "re...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
1991.
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| Series: | Complexity in ecological systems series
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / T.F.H. Allen and David W. Roberts
- Ch. 1. Prolegomenon
- Ch. 2. Strategic considerations : the special and the general
- Ch. 3. Some necessary epistemological considerations
- Ch. 4. concept of state
- Ch. 5. Entailment without states : relational biology
- Ch. 6. Analytic and synthetic models
- Ch. 7. On simulation
- Ch. 8. Machines and mechanisms
- Ch. 9. Relational theory of machines
- Ch. 10. Lift itself : the preliminary steps
- Ch. 11. Relational biology and biology.