Rosennean Complexity and other interests
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In Life Itself, Rosen discusses the minimal foundational premises upon which all of science rests:
1. The succession of events or phenomena that we perceive in the ambience is not entirely arbitrary or whimsical; there are relations (e.g., causal relations) manifest in the world of phenomena.
2. The relations between phenomena that we have just posited are, […]
From an October 2006 post by Steve Kercel on the ROSEN-L discussion list:
Many of the issues that you have been discussing are addressed in
Systems Biology: Principles, Methods, and Concepts edited by
Andrzej Konopka, ISBN: 0824725204 published by CRC. ….
I have two chapters in the book. One discusses closure to efficient cause
from an engineering perspective, and the […]
From a March post by Jannie Hofmeyr on the ROSEN discussion list:
Yesterday a new book entitled “Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations”
was published by Elsevier. In it I have a chapter entitled “The biochemical
factory that autonomously fabricates itself: A systems-biological view of
the living cell” which was inspired mainly by Rosen. I also link M,R-systems
to Von Neumann’s self-reproducing automata […]
MIT Press’ Artificial Life journal announces it will publish Aloisius Louie’s rebuttal paper,”A Living System Must Have Noncomputable Models“, to the 2006 Chu-Ho paper “A Category Theoretical Argument against the Possibility of Artificial Life: Robert Rosen’s Central Proof Revisited” (see this post) in the forthcoming Volume 13, Issue 3, Summer 2007 issue. (Interestingly, Chu and […]
Paul Cull has a paper entitled “The mathematical biophysics of Nicolas Rashevsky“ in the journal BioSystems, Volume 88, Issue 3, April 2007, Pages 178-184.
Link: doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.11.003
Abstract:
N. Rashevsky (1899–1972) was one of the pioneers in the application of mathematics to biology. With the slogan:
mathematical biophysics : biology :: mathematical physics : physics,
he proposed the creation of a quantitative […]
A new paper by Olaf Wolkenhauer and Jannie Hofmeyr, entitled “An abstract cell model that describes the self-organization of cell function in living systems“, appears in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 246, Issue 3, 7 June 2007, Pages 461-476 .
Link: doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.01.005
Preprint: www.sbi.uni-rostock.de/dokumente/wolkenhauer_jtb_selforg.pdf
Abstract:
The principal aim of systems biology is to search for general principles that govern […]