Re: Paper by Landauer and Bellman

[Kevin de Laplante <***>]

I'd be anxious to get a hold of this myself, if it's out there.

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jannie Hofmeyr" <***>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: Paper by Landauer and Bellman


> Dear list-members
>
> Does anyone perhaps have a pdf of the following paper by Christopher
> Landauer and Kirstie Bellman?
>
> Theoretical Biology: Organisms and Mechanisms
> AIP Conference Proceedings Vol 627(1) pp. 59-70. September 2, 2002
>
> Abstract:
> The Theoretical Biology Program initiated by Robert Rosen is intended to
> identify the key theoretical characteristics of organisms, especially
> those that distinguish organisms from mechanisms, by looking for the
> proper abstractions and defining the appropriate relationships. There are
> strong claims about the distinctions in Rosen's book "Life Itself", along
> with some purported proofs of these assertions. Unfortunately, the
> Mathematics is incorrect, and the assertions remain unproven (and some of
> them are simply false). In this paper, we present the ideas of Rosen's
> approach, demonstrate that his Mathematical formulations and proofs are
> wrong, and then show how they might be made more successful.
>
> Sounds like something we could discuss if we only knew where Rosen
> supposedly "went wrong".
>
> Thanks
> Jannie
>