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By promoting self-organization, energy flux gradually converts a clump of mindless molecules into information-processing machinery with agency—meaning the self-drive and purposeful action that we associate with life.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
Evolution, at the ecological level, can now be seen as a co-constructive dynamic between three processes (not unlike the triad underlying autopoiesis in the cell): (1) selecting goals to pursue, (2) picking appropriate actions from one’s repertoire, and (3) leveraging affordances (grasping opportunities or avoiding obstacles) in the arena.
Understanding Living Systems
basic ingredients for systems that could devise and improvise solutions to living that are emergent, versatile, adaptive, and robust. The new picture dispels the long-standing idea that living systems must be regarded as machines.
Philip Ball • How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Understanding Living Systems
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2. What are the key features or characteristics that define a living system?
Nonlinearity, feedback, being open and far from thermodynamicequilibrium, antifragility, self-organization, information-processing, hierarchical organization, and heterogeneity of parts and their interactions are all necessary but not sufficient to define a living system. ... See more
Nonlinearity, feedback, being open and far from thermodynamicequilibrium, antifragility, self-organization, information-processing, hierarchical organization, and heterogeneity of parts and their interactions are all necessary but not sufficient to define a living system. ... See more
Understanding Living Systems
1. What are living systems, and how do they differ from non-living systems?
Life emerges from the realm of the non-living as a new kind of organization of matter . Life is not distinguished by what it is made of, but by how it is put together, and how it behaves.
Life emerges from the realm of the non-living as a new kind of organization of matter . Life is not distinguished by what it is made of, but by how it is put together, and how it behaves.
Understanding Living Systems
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