Rosen-focused Links

• Rosen Enterprises - Official Rosen family website
  • BioTheory - “An e-journal of General Science in the Rosennean Complexity Paradigm”
• ROSEN Mailing List - ROSEN discussion list w/current archives. List owner: Judith Rosen.
  • ROSEN Archives 2003 - 2005
• ROSEN-L Mailing List - ROSEN-L discussion list at VCU w/archives. List owner: Don Mikulecky.
• Don Mikulecky’s Home Page - Don has an extensive online collection of Rosen resources
• Metabolism Repair - A community wiki dedicated to documenting and continuing the complexity research of Robert Rosen
• Beware: There exists a Wikipedia entry for “Robert Rosen”. However, it contains some misleading and incorrect information about his views. The open nature of Wikipedia lends itself to both accidental and willful misrepresentations.

Rosen Papers Online (by date)
(The following represents only a fraction of the totality of Rosen’s published papers. Unfortunately, many journals have yet to provide online access to their older issues.)

• “Autonomous State Classifications by Dynamical Systems”
  • 1972. Math. Biosci. 14(1-2):151-167
  • doi:10.1016/0025-5564(72)90015-6
     
• “Further Comments on Autonomous State Classifiers
    and an Application to Genetics”
  • 1972. Math. Biosci. 14(3-4):305-310
  • doi:10.1016/0025-5564(72)90081-8
     
• “On Interactions Between Dynamical Systems”
  • 1975. Math Biosci. 27(3-4):299-307
  • doi:10.1016/0025-5564(75)90108-X
     
• “On the Sensitivity of Biodynamical Interactions to Parameter Variations”
  • 1976. Math. Biosci. 28(3-4):237-242
  • doi:10.1016/0025-5564(76)90126-7
     
• “Ergodic Approximations and Specificity”
  • 1980. Math. Modelling. 1(1):91-97
  • doi:10.1016/0270-0255(80)90009-3
     
• “Comments on ‘A Unified Theory of Biology and Physics’ by S. Goldman”
  • 1980. J. of Soc. and Bio. Sys. 3(4):363-365
  • doi:10.1016/0140-1750(80)90042-1
     
• “Role of Similarity Principles in Data Extrapolation”
  • 1983. Amer. J. Physiol. 244:R591-R599
  • AJP Abstract
     
• Book Review: ‘Anatomy of Reality: Merging Intuition and Reason’ by Jonas Salk
  • 1984. J. of Soc. and Bio. Sys. 7(4):394-396
  • doi:10.1016/0140-1750(84)90014-9
     
• “James F. Danielli: 1911-1984″
  • 1985. J. of Soc. and Bio. Sys. 8(1):1-11
  • doi:10.1016/0140-1750(85)90056-9
     
• “Optimality in Biology and Medicine”
  • 1986. J. of Math. Anal. and Appl. 119(1-2):203-222
  • doi:10.1016/0022-247X(86)90153-8
     
• “On Complex Systems”
  • 1987. Euro. J. of Operational Rsrch. 30(2):129-134
  • doi:10.1016/0377-2217(87)90089-0
     
• “How Universal is a Universal Unfolding?”
  • 1988. Applied Math. Letters 1(2):105-107
  • doi:10.1016/0893-9659(88)90051-1
    
• “On Explaining Creativity”
  • 1988. J. of Social and Bio. Sys. 11(1):134-135
  • doi:10.1016/0140-1750(88)90049-8
     
• “Similarity and Dissimilarity: A Partial Overview”
  • 1988. Human Movement Sci. 7(2-4):131-153
  • doi:10.1016/0167-9457(88)90010-3
     
• “On Models and Modeling”
  • 1993. Appl. Math. and Comp. 56(2-3):359-372
  • doi:10.1016/0096-3003(93)90128-2
    
• “On Psychomimesis”
  • 1994. J. Theoretical Bio. 171(1):87-92
  • doi:10.1006/jtbi.1994.1214
    
• “What is Biology?”
  • 1994. Computers & Chem 18(3):347-352
  • doi:10.1016/0097-8485(94)
    
• “Biology and the Measurement Problem”
  • 1996. Computers & Chem 20(1):95-100
  • doi:10.1016/S0097-8485(96)80011-8
    

Reviews of Rosen

• Book Review: ‘Fundamentals of Measurement and Representation of Natural Systems’
  • 1980. D.A. Nutbrown. Agri. Sys. 6(2):155-156
  • doi:10.1016/0308-521X(80)90026-8
     
• Book Review: ‘Theoretical Biology and Complexity’
  • 1986. P.T. Saunders. Math Biosci. 81(2):247-248
  • doi:10.1016/0025-5564(86)90121-5
     
• Book Review: ‘Anticipatory Systems’
  • 1987. T. Támos. Automatica. 23(1):128-129
  • doi:10.1016/0005-1098(87)90124-5
     
• Book Review: ‘Life Itself’
  • 1993. C. Joslyn. Int. J. of Gen. Sys. 21:394-402
  • PDF Errata for ‘Life Itself’(PDF)
     
• Book Review: ‘Life Itself’
  • 1995. G. Kampis. Biosystems. 35(1):93-98
  • doi:10.1016/0303-2647(95)90013-6
     
• “Robert Rosen (1934-1998): A Snapshot of Biology’s Newton”
  • 2001. D. Mikulecky. Comp. & Chem. 25(4):317-327
  • doi:10.1016/S0097-8485(01)00079-1
     

Rosen Errata
(The following are not official errata documents. However, the interested reader will likely find them useful.)

• “A Series of Unfortunate Misprints”
  • 2005. A. Louie. PDF
     
• “Remarks to Rosen on Life Itself”
  • 1992. C. Joslyn. PDF
    

(M,R)-systems and Relational Biology online

• “Organismic Supercategories and Qualitative Dynamics of Systems”
  • 1971. Baianu. Bull. of Math. Bio. 33(3):339-354
  • PDF
    
• “The Theory of Metabolism-Repair Systems”
  • 1988. Casti. Appl. Math. and Comp. 28(2):113-154
  • doi:10.1016/0096-3003(88)90090-2
     
• “The Algebraic Relational Theory Suggesting How to Deviate a Cancer Process”
  • 1997. Leguizamón. J. Bio. Sys. 5(1):87-109
  • doi:10.1142/S0218339097000084
    
• “Quasi-Autopoietic Systems Using Metabolism Repair Systems”
  • 1997. Nomura. ECAL 1997:48-56
  • PDF
    
• “A Description of Quasi-Autopoietic Systems based on the Framework of (M,R) Systems”
  • 1998. Nomura, Shimohara. AROB III 1998:658-661
  • PDF
    
• “Review: The Algebraic Relational Theory and its Applications”
  • 2000. Zaretzky. J. of Bio. Sci. 8(3):279-317
  • doi:10.1142/S0218339000000213
    
• “Formal Description of Autopoiesis Based on the Theory of Categories”
  • 2001. Nomura. ECAL 2001:700-703
  • PDF
    
• “Formal Description of Autopoiesis from Analytic Models of Life and Social Systems”
  • 2002. Nomura. Artificial Life VIII pp. 15-18
  • PDF
    
• “Metabolic Networks from (M,R) Systems and Autopoiesis Perspective
  • 2002. Zaretzky, Letelier. J. Bio. Sys. 10(3):265-280
  • doi:10.1142/S0218339002000573
    
• “Autopoietic and (M,R) Systems”
  • 2003. Letelier, Marin, Mpodozis. J. Theo. Bio. 222(2):261-272
  • doi:10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00034-1
     
• “Process, Structure and Context in Relation to Integrative Biology”
  • 2002. R. Paton. Biosystems. 64(1-3):63-72
  • doi:10.1016/S0303-2647(01)00176-9
     
• “Categorical Language and Hierarchical Models for Cell Systems”
  • Brown, Paton, Porter.
  • PDF
    
• “Category Theory and Higher-Dimensional Algebra:
    Potential Descriptive Tools in Neuroscience”
  • Brown, Porter.
  • PDF
    
• “Category-Functor Modelling of Natural Systems”
  • 1999. Levich, Solov’yov. Cybernetics and Sys. 30(6):571-585
  • HTML
    
• Memory Evolutive Systems
   
• “Organizational invariance and metabolic closure: Analysis in terms of (M,R) systems”
  • 2005. Juan-Carlos Letelier, Jorge Soto-Andrade, Flavio Guíñez Abarzúa, Athel Cornish-Bowden and María Luz Cárdenas. J. Theo. Bio. 238(4):949-961
  • doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.07.007
  • Preprint: HTML PDF
• “Any Material Realization of the (M,R)-Systems must have noncomputable models”
  • 2005. Aloisuis Louie. J. of Integr. Neurosci. 4(4):423-436.
  • doi:10.1142/S0219635205000926
     

  
  

Some other Rosen-related papers online

• “The Endogenous Brain”
  • 2004. Kercel. J.of Integr. Neurosci., 3(1):61-84
  • doi:10.1142/S0219635204000385
     

• 1999. Kercel, Allgood, Dress, Hylton. Proc. SPIE 3722:224-235
• http://adsabs.harvard.edu/…
   

• Dress. ANNIE ‘99
• PDF
   

• 1993. Dress. Proc. of 2nd Inter. Conf. on Info. and Knowl. Mgmt. 1993:223-232
• http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/170088.170137
  

Theoretical Biology

• Links and Journals

  • Emmeche - Theoretical Biology Links
  • NVTB - Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Journals
  • Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
  • Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
  • Journal of Theoretical Biology
  • ComPlexUs Journal
  • The Society for Mathematical Biology
    
    

• Systems Biology

  • Systems Biology - IEE
  • BioComplexity
  • Institute for Systems Biology
  • European Systems Biology Initiative

• Nicolas Rashevsky

  • Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Rashevsky, Nicolas
  • Rashevsky bio
    
    

• Biological Systems and Complexity

  • George Kampis Home Page
  • Joslyn - Review of Kampis’ “Self-Modifying Systems” (PDF)
  • Stuart A. Kauffman Home Page
  • Hans Hass (Hypercell/Energon Theory)
    
    

• Anticipatory Systems

  • Anticipation.info
  • Serge Stinckwich - Anticipatory Systems
    
    

• Autopoiesis

  • Enola Gaia (Dr. Randall Whitaker)
  • Autopoiesis Terminology
  • Tatsya Nomura’s Publications

• Theoretical Ecology

  • Robert Ulanowicz Homepage

Systems Theory and Organization

• General Systems Theory

  • International Society for the Systems Sciences
  • Bertalanffy - Father of Systems Theory
    
    

• System Complexity and Self-Organization

  • Bruce Edmond’s Home Page
  • New England Complex Systems Institute
  • Self-Organizing Systems FAQ for Usenet newsgroup comp.theory.self-org-sys
  • L.S. & R. Penrose (1957) - “A Self-Reproducing Analogue”
  • Lars Lofgren (1968) - “An Axiomatic Explanation of Complete Self-Reproduction”
  • Per Bak - “Self-Organization of Complex Systems”
  • Luis Rocha - Complex Systems and Systems Biology

• Thermodynamics of Open Systems

  • Kay & Schneider - “Challenge of the Ecosystem Approach” (PDF)
  • James Kay Homepage
  • Schneider and Kay - “Order from Disorder”

• Emergence

  • Emergence and Universal Computation (PDF)
  • Claus Emmeche - Selected publications

Computational Topics

• Turing, Turing Machines, and Church-Turing Theses

  • Turing Machines
  • Church-Turing Thesis
  • The Calculi of Lambda Conversion - Alonzo Church (1941)
  • Wikipedia - Church-Turing thesis
  • Alan Turing (1936) - “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem”
  • Alan Turing (1950) - “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
  • Lecture Notes on Lambda Calculus
  • Peter Suber, Turing Machines II
  • Church Biography
  • The Church-Turing Thesis
  • Alan Turing - Home Page

John von Neumann

• The Work of John von Neumann
• John von Neumann 1903 - 1957
• John von Neumann and the Evolutionary Growth of Complexity
• “The Circularity in von Neumann’s [no hidden variables] Proof”

Artificial Intelligence

• Rodney Brooks
  • “Living Machines”
  • Publications
• John Searle
  • Searle (1980) - “Minds, Brains, and Programs”
  • “Is the Brain a Digital Computer?”
  • “The Problem of Consciousness”
  • Encyc. of Phil. - Chinese Room Argument

Cellular Automata

• Wolfram.com - Cellular Automata Articles

Quantum Computation

• Quantum Computation Archives (PDFs)
• Centre for Quantum Computation

Cybernetics

• American Society for Cybernetics
• Principia Cybernetica Archives
• Principia Cybernetica - Ashby’s “An Introduction to Cybernetics” (PDF)

Computational Complexity

• The Complexity Zoo
• G J Chaitin (Algorithmic Information Theory) Home Page

Mathematics & Logic

Gödel

• Mathematical Logic. Around Gödel’s Theorem
• Gödel on the net
• Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
• Chaitin - Gödel’s Theorem and Information
• Inexhaustibility aspect of Gödel Incompleteness

Hyperset Theory

• Hyperset Theory

David Hilbert’s 23 Problems

• “23 Mathematical Problems” - by David Hilbert
• “Die Mathematischen Probleme” von David Hilbert

Category Theory Links

• Category Theory for Beginners
• Fokkinga - A Gentle Introduction to Category Theory (PS)
• Hillman - A Categorical Primer (PDF) (PS)
• Turi - Category Theory Lecture Notes (PDF) (PS)
• Asperti/Longo - Categories, Types, and Structures (PS)
• Goldblatt - Topoi, the categorical analysis of logic
• Theory and Applications of Categories
• Categories List of Links
• Alsani’s Descent & Category Theory Webpage

Catastrophe Theory Links

• Catastrophe Theory Links
• Catastrophe Theory
• Biography of Rene Thom

Other

• Spencer-Brown’s “Laws of Form”
• Hintikka - A Revolution in Logic
• ‘The Principles of Mathematics Revisited’ by Jaakko Hintikka
• E. T. Jaynes - Bio & Publications
• Peter Suber, The Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem
• T. Bays - Reflections on Skolem’s Paradox (PDF)
• Exact and Inexact Differentials
• John Baez’s Stuff
• PlanetMath.Org
• MIT - World Web Math
• Foundations of Math Mailing List FOM Archives
• MathPages
• “Completeness and Categoricity, Part I 19th Century Axiomatics to 20th Century Metalogic”
• “Completeness and Categoricity, Part II 20th Century Metalogic to 21st Century Semantics”

Physics

• Usenet Physics FAQ
• Noether’s Theorem
• Tutorial - Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics
• Thermodynamics and Statistical Dynamics - Lecture Course
• Hans Reichenbach - Philosophy of Physics
• Holonomic vs Nonholonomic Kinematics
• Physics Classroom

• N-Body Problem

  • N-Body Problem History
  • Parallel Computing to Solve the N-Body Problem
  • Simulation for the n-body problem
  • dynamical-systems.org - Three-body problem
  • Ivars Peterson’s MathTrek -Strange Orbits -N-body

• Quantum Mechanics

  • Classics from Physical Review (EPR, Bohr, Bohm, Aspect, etc.)
  • quant-ph archive at arXiv
  • Physics Virtual Bookshelf - QM
  • HyperPhysics Concepts - QM
  • de Muynck - QM
  • The EPR GedankenExperiment
  • Spin

• Time

  • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Time
  • John Baez - Relativity on the Web
  • Prof. Uchii’s SpaceTime Page
  • Brock - “Is Time Real?”

Language/Linguistics

• General Semantics - Korzybski

  • IGS - Institute of General Semantics
  • International Society for General Semantics

• Science & Metaphor

  • “Making Truth: Metaphor in Science”

• Semiotics

  • Semiotics (page of links)

Philosophy

• Philosophy Pages
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Aristotle

  • Episteme Links - Aristotle
  • Philosophy Pages - Aristotle
  • Greek Philosophy Archive
  • The Internet Classics Archives
  • Georgia Inst. Tech. - Aristotle
  • “The Four Causes”