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Ayten Aydin wrote: How come could, these two scientists being contemporary
and I guess knowing the work of each other, not think of benefiting from
each other and collaborate, if not when Rosen was alive, but now Kauffman could
think of finding the missing something in the Rosen's work?? With all the
knowledge around why could disciples of Rosen make an attempt to merge the two
not close but perhaps complementary theories? Therefore, can we not do the same
by to applying Rosen's theory into practice in variety of fields which requires
organization as their central concern by making the whole system (mostly
complex) function synergistically?
From the various summaries and quotes so far, my intuition is
that while both sets of ideas talk about organization, Kauffman tacks the
concept of organization onto the current scientific foundations, which
is where his inconsistency comes from, I suspect. In contrast, Robert Rosen
concluded the foundations were at fault in the inapplicability of
models from physics to answer questions in biology, and he basically
re-imagined the foundations-- around matters of organization. So,
he would say that Kauffman's notion of organizational principles does not have a
sound foundational basis to explain those principles.
Because of that, their work is actually incompatible even though
they are both talking about the importance of organization. There is no way to
"merge" them.
Judith
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