Essays on Life ItselfColumbia University Press, 2000 - 361 sivua Compiling twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natural sciences, this remarkable book complements Robert Rosen's groundbreaking Life Itself--a work that influenced a wide range of philosophers, biologists, linguists, and social scientists. In Essays on Life Itself, Rosen takes to task the central objective of the natural sciences, calling into question the attempt to create objectivity in a subjective world and forcing us to reconsider where science can lead us in the years to come. |
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On Biology and Physics | 1 |
The Schrodinger Question What Is Life? FiftyFive Years Later | 5 |
Biological Challenges to Contemporary Paradigms of Physics and Mimetics | 33 |
What Is Biology? | 45 |
On Biology and the Mind | 57 |
The ChurchPythagoras Thesis | 63 |
Drawing the Boundary Between Subject and Object Comments on the MindBrain Problem | 82 |
Mind as Phenotype | 96 |
Some Random Thoughts About Chaos and Some Chaotic Thoughts About Randomness | 187 |
Similarity and Dissimilarity in Biology | 197 |
Optimality in Biology and Medicine | 201 |
Morphogenesis in Networks | 224 |
Order and Disorder in Biological Control Systems | 246 |
What Does It Take to Make an Organism? | 254 |
On Biology and Technology | 271 |
Some Lessons of Biology | 275 |
On Psychomimesis | 115 |
The MindBrain Problem and the Physics of Reductionism | 126 |
On Genericity | 141 |
Genericity as Information | 145 |
Syntactics and Semantics in Languages | 156 |
How Universal Is a Universal Unfolding? | 171 |
System Closure and Dynamical Degeneracy | 175 |
Bionics Revisited | 283 |
On the Philosophy of Craft | 297 |
Cooperation and Chimera | 308 |
Are Our Modeling Paradigms Nongeneric? | 324 |
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