More Than Life Itself : : A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology / / A. H. Louie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Louie, A. H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Categories , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Praefatio: Unus non sufficit orbis --; Nota bene --; Prolegomenon: Concepts from Logic --; PART I: Exordium --; 1 Praeludium: Ordered Sets --; 2 Principium: The Lattice of Equivalence Relations --; 3 Continuatio: Further Lattice Theory --; PART II: Systems, Models, and Entailment --; 4 The Modelling Relation --; 5 Causation --; 6 Topology --; PART III: Simplex and Complex --; 7 The Category of Formal Systems --; 8 Simple Systems --; 9 Complex Systems --; PART IV: Hypotheses fingo --; 10 Anticipation --; 11 Living Systems --; 12 Synthesis of (M,R)-Systems --; PART V: Epilogus --; 13 Ontogenic Vignettes --; Appendix: Category Theory --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index --; Categories
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110321944; 9783110238570; 9783110238488; 9783110636949; 9783110331226; 9783110331219
• ISSN: 2198-1868
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110321944
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: A. H. Louie.

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.