Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of LifeRosen, R.
2005
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Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life

Robert Rosen

Published
2005
In the library
Described, not held
Rights
In copyright. The library holds a record, not the text.
Why it is here
On Michael Levin's list of inspirations
What the held texts say about it

Only one held work, Ciaunica, Shmeleva and Levin (2023), cites Rosen (2005) in the passages. They use it to support the claim that self-organizing autonomous systems are organizationally closed: their network of processes is recursively dependent in generating and realizing the processes themselves. They then build on this to discuss boundaries of the Self in living systems. The passages give no further detail on the book's own argument.

Self-organizing autonomous systems are organizationally closed such that the network of processes is recursively dependent on each other in the generation and realization of the processes themselves (Rosen, 2005).

Ciaunica A, Shmeleva EV, Levin M, 2023 · The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular… · open at passage 11