TY - BOOK ID - 77929631 TI - More Than Life Itself PY - 2013 SN - 3110321947 9783110321944 9783868380446 3868380442 9783110321616 3110321610 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Biology KW - Biological systems. KW - Biosystems KW - Systems, Biological KW - System theory KW - Systems biology KW - Vitalism KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77929631 AB - A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories, lattices, and modelling, and the result is a synthetic biology that provides a characterization of life. Biology extends physics. Life is not a specialization of mechanism, but an expansive generalization of it. Organisms and machines share some common features, but organisms are not machines. Life is defined by a relational closure that places it beyond the reach of physicochemical and mechanistic dogma, outside the reductionistic universe, and into the realm of impredicativity. Function dictates structure. Complexity brings forth living beings. ER -