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Dominique Chu and Wen Kin Ho iterate their previous exercises in misunderstanding and misconstruing of Rosen’s work with their latest paper, “Computational Realizations of Living Systems“, in the Fall 2007 issue of the MIT journal Artificial Life [1]. The abstract:

Robert Rosen’s central theorem states that organisms are fundamentally different from machines, mainly because they are ‘‘closed with respect to efficient causation.” The proof […]

A paper written by Christopher Landauer and Kirstie Bellman entitled “Theoretical Biology: Organisms and Mechanisms“, and published by the American Institute of Physics, critiques some aspects of the work of Robert Rosen in his book Life Itself. Landauer-Bellman come to the strong conclusion that “the Mathematics is incorrect, and the assertions remain unproven (and some […]