The Nature of Organization in Living Systems
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| author | Márquez-Zacarías, Pedro Ortiz-Muñoz, Andrés Bingham, Emma P. |
| author_facet | Márquez-Zacarías, Pedro Ortiz-Muñoz, Andrés Bingham, Emma P. |
| contents | Living systems are thermodynamically open but closed in their organization. In other words, even though their material components turn over constantly, a material-independent property persists, which we call organization. Moreover, organization comes from within organisms themselves, which requires us to explain how this self-organization is established and maintained. In this paper we propose a mathematical and conceptual framework to understand the kinds of organized systems that living systems are, aiming to explain how self-organization emerges from more basic elemental processes. Additionally, we map our own notions to existing traditions in theoretical biology and philosophy, aiming to bring the main formal ideas into conceptual congruence. |
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| spellingShingle | The Nature of Organization in Living Systems Márquez-Zacarías, Pedro Ortiz-Muñoz, Andrés Bingham, Emma P. Quantitative Methods Populations and Evolution Living systems are thermodynamically open but closed in their organization. In other words, even though their material components turn over constantly, a material-independent property persists, which we call organization. Moreover, organization comes from within organisms themselves, which requires us to explain how this self-organization is established and maintained. In this paper we propose a mathematical and conceptual framework to understand the kinds of organized systems that living systems are, aiming to explain how self-organization emerges from more basic elemental processes. Additionally, we map our own notions to existing traditions in theoretical biology and philosophy, aiming to bring the main formal ideas into conceptual congruence. |
| title | The Nature of Organization in Living Systems |
| topic | Quantitative Methods Populations and Evolution |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03950 |