The reflection of life: functional entailment and imminence in relational biology, by A. H. Louie

Nadin, Mihai

doi:10.1080/03081079.2014.980932

International Journal of General Systems

2014

DOI: 10.1080/03081079.2014.980932

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The reflection of life: functional entailment and imminence in relational biology, by A. H. Louie

Mihai Nadin

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“…(Severtsov 1939, 345) This relational understanding of organisms' morphological change in evolution and development seems to share important parallels with the relational biology developed later as a theoretical and mathematical discipline by N. Rashevsky and R. Rosen (1991), attempting to define the abstract relational structure of organisms by, most simply put, "throwing away the physics, and keeping the organization" (Rosen 1991, 280). Louie (2013) discusses these aspects in detail; Nadin (2015) places the subject in the current context. The parallel of these approaches seems further justified as leading Russian physiologists and neurophysiologists like P.K.…”

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On the origins of anticipation as an evolutionary framework: functional systems perspective

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This paper discusses the problem of anticipation from an evolutionary and systems-theoretical perspective, developed in the context of Russian/Soviet evolutionary biological and neurophysiological schools in the early and mid-twentieth century. On this background, an outline is given of the epigenetic interpretation of anticipatory capacities formulated and substantiated by the eminent Russian neurophysiologist academician Peter K. Anokhin in the framework of functional systems theory. It is considered that several key positions of this theory are well confirmed by recent evidence on anticipation as an evolutionarily basic adaptive capacity, possibly inherent to the organization of life. In the field of neuroscience, the theory of functional systems may potentially facilitate future studies at the intersection of learning, development and evolution by representing an integrative approach to the problem of anticipation.

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On the origins of anticipation as an evolutionary framework: functional systems perspective

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Anticipatory dynamics of biological systems: from molecular quantum states to evolution

Igamberdiev

2015

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Living systems possess anticipatory behaviour that is based on the flexibility of internal models generated by the system's embedded description. The idea was suggested by Aristotle and is explicitly introduced to theoretical biology by Rosen. The possibility of holding the embedded internal model is grounded in the principle of stable non-equilibrium (Bauer). From the quantum mechanical view, this principle aims to minimize energy dissipation in expense of long relaxation times. The ideas of stable non-equilibrium were developed by Liberman who viewed living systems as subdivided into the quantum regulator and the molecular computer supporting coherence of the regulator's internal quantum state. The computational power of the cell molecular computer is based on the possibility of molecular rearrangements according to molecular addresses. In evolution, the anticipatory strategies are realized both as a precession of phylogenesis by ontogenesis (Berg) and as the anticipatory search of genetic fixation of adaptive changes that incorporates them into the internal model of genetic system. We discuss how the fundamental ideas of anticipation can be introduced into the basic foundations of theoretical biology.

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The reflection of life: functional entailment and imminence in relational biology, by A. H. Louie

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On the origins of anticipation as an evolutionary framework: functional systems perspective

On the origins of anticipation as an evolutionary framework: functional systems perspective

Anticipatory dynamics of biological systems: from molecular quantum states to evolution

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