Essays on Life Itself
Compiling twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natural sciences, this remarkable book complements Robert Rosen's groundbreaking Life Itself -- a work that influenced a wide range of philosophers, biologists, linguists, and social scientists. In Essays on Life Itself, Rosen takes to task the central objective of the natural sciences, calling into question the attempt to create objectivity in a subjective world and forcing us to reconsider where science can lead us...
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Compiling twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natural sciences, this remarkable book complements Robert Rosen's groundbreaking Life Itself — a work that influenced a wide range of philosophers, biologists, linguists, and social scientists. In Essays on Life Itself, Rosen takes to task the central objective of the natural sciences, calling into question the attempt to create objectivity in a subjective world and forcing us to reconsider where science can lead us in the years to come. Booknews Contains a collection of philosopher and biologist Robert Rosen's post- essays, written for meetings, seminars, conferences, and workshops and, in some cases, previously published. Essays are divided into five sections: on biology and physics; on biology and the mind; on genericity; similarity and dissimilarity in biology; and on biology and technology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefacePt. IOn Biology and Physics11The Schrodinger Question, What Is Life? Fifty-Five Years Later52Biological Challenges to Contemporary Paradigms of Physics and Mimetics333What Is Biology?45Pt. IIOn Biology and the Mind574The Church-Pythagoras Thesis635Drawing the Boundary Between Subject and Object: Comments on the Mind-Brain Problem826Mind as Phenotype967On Psychomimesis1158The Mind-Brain Problem and the Physics of Reductionism126Pt. IIIOn Genericity1419Genericity as Information14510Syntactics and Semantics in Languages15611How Universal Is a Universal Unfolding?17112System Closure and Dynamical Degeneracy17513Some Random Thoughts About Chaos and Some Chaotic Thoughts About Randomness187Pt. IVSimilarity and Dissimilarity in Biology19714Optimality in Biology and Medicine20115Morphogenesis in Networks22416Order and Disorder in Biological Control Systems24617What Does It Take to Make an Organism?254Pt. VOn Biology and Technology27118Some Lessons of Biology27519Bionics Revisited28320On the Philosophy of Craft29721Cooperation and Chimera30822Are Our Modeling Paradigms Nongeneric?324References341Index347
\ The Quarterly Review of BiologyThese 22 essays are intended for serious thinkers, as they are provocative and often iconoclastic. There are many new ideas, daring perspectives, and challenging modes of interpretation of concepts that readers may have mistakenly thought they understood.... I am equally sure that readers will enjoy and benefit from these essays.\ — Bruce J. West\ \ \ \ \ \ The Quarterly Review of Biology - Bruce J. West\ These 22 essays are intended for serious thinkers, as they are provocative and often iconoclastic. There are many new ideas, daring perspectives, and challenging modes of interpretation of concepts that readers may have mistakenly thought they understood.... I am equally sure that readers will enjoy and benefit from these essays.\ \ \ \ Contains a collection of philosopher and biologist Robert Rosen's post- essays, written for meetings, seminars, conferences, and workshops and, in some cases, previously published. Essays are divided into five sections: on biology and physics; on biology and the mind; on genericity; similarity and dissimilarity in biology; and on biology and technology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
