This paper compares two complementary theories, Simeonov's Wandering Logic Intelligence and Ehresmann's & Vanbremeersch's Memory Evolutive Systems, in view of developing a common framework for the study of multiscale complex systems such as living systems. It begins by a brief summary of WLI and MES, then analyzes their resemblances and differences. Finally, the article provides an outlook for a future research.Keywords: Wandering logic intelligence; Memory evolutive systems; Hierarchy; Emergence; Self-organization; Autopoiesis; Genetic transcoding; Virtualization; Distribution; Non-locality; Category theory.
IntroductionThis paper is divided in 3 parts:(i) The first one gives a brief summary on the Wandering Logic Intelligence (WLI); a biology-inspired theoretical and practical framework for designing evolutionary communication architectures and their services and applications in terms of an always growing model of ever changing software and hardware. The WLI approach represents a next step of network virtualization and evolution of application-and user-aware networks as adaptive systems consolidating both network element and infrastructure flexibility. Now this approach is taken back to biology to model the operational semantics of complex emergent formations and processes.(ii) The second part presents the main ideas at the basis of the Memory Evolutive Systems; a dynamic model for self-organized multi-scale complex systems such as living, cognitive or social systems; these systems have a hierarchy of components changing over time, and their dynamic is modulated by the cooperation/competition between a net of agents, the coregulators, each operating locally with its own rhythm, function and logic. The model is based on a dynamic category theory which gives tools for representing the notion of hierarchy. It emphasizes 2 main properties of such systems: the Multiplicity Principle, a kind of 'flexible redundancy' which is shown to be at the root of the emergence of higher complexity, robustness and flexibility; and the synchronicity laws that the co-regulators must respect and which generate cascades of failures/repair at different levels.