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Life as Complex Systems --- Viewpoint from Intra-Inter Dynamics

adap-org 2007-05-23 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems q-bio

Abstract

Basic problems in complex systems are surveyed in connection with Life. As a key issue for complex systems, complementarity between syntax/rule/parts and semantics/behavior/whole is stressed. To address the issue, a constructive approach for a biological system is proposed. As a construction in a computer, intra-inter dynamics is presented for cell biology, where the following five general features are drawn from our model experiments; intrinsic diversification, recursive type formation, rule generation, formation of internal representation, and macroscopic robustness. Significance of the constructed logic to the biology of existing organisms is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.adap-org/9808001,
  title  = {Life as Complex Systems --- Viewpoint from Intra-Inter Dynamics},
  author = {Kunihiko Kaneko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:adap-org/9808001},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

20 pages including 1 figure; Complexity, in press