More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology

A. H. Louie

Published by De Gruyter 2009

More Than Life Itself

A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology

A. H. Louie

Volume 1 in the series Categories

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110321944

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About this book

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 beyond the reach of physicochemical and mechanistic dogma, outside the reductionistic universe, and into the realm of impredicativity. Function dictates structure. Complexity brings forth living beings.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Praefatio: Unus non sufficit orbis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Nota bene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxi
Prolegomenon: Concepts from Logic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: Exordium
1 Praeludium: Ordered Sets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2 Principium: The Lattice of Equivalence Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3 Continuatio: Further Lattice Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
PART II: Systems, Models, and Entailment
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5 Causation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
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PART III: Simplex and Complex
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PART IV: Hypotheses fingo
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11 Living Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
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PART V: Epilogus
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Appendix: Category Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 388

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110321944

Hardcover

Published: May 28, 2009
ISBN: 9783110321616