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- catalog abstract ""For centuries, it was believed that the only scientific approach to the question "What is life?" must proceed from the Cartesian metaphor (organism as machine). Classical approaches in science, which also borrow heavily from Newtonian mechanics, are based on a process called "reductionism." The thinking was that we can better learn about an intricate, complicated system (like an organism) if we take it apart, study the components, and then reconstruct the system - thereby gaining an understanding of the whole." "However, Rosen argues that reductionism does not work in biology and ignores the complexity of organisms. Life Itself, a landmark work, represents the scientific and intellectual journey that led Rosen to question reductionism and develop new scientific approaches to understanding the nature of life. Ultimately, Rosen proposes an answer to the original question about the causal basis of life in organisms. He asserts that renouncing the mechanistic and reductionistic models does not mean abandoning science. Instead, Rosen offers an alternate paradigm for science that takes into account the relational effects of organization in natural systems and is based on organized matter rather than on particulate matter alone."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3654645.
- catalog created "c1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "c1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
- catalog description ""For centuries, it was believed that the only scientific approach to the question "What is life?" must proceed from the Cartesian metaphor (organism as machine). Classical approaches in science, which also borrow heavily from Newtonian mechanics, are based on a process called "reductionism." The thinking was that we can better learn about an intricate, complicated system (like an organism) if we take it apart, study the components, and then reconstruct the system - thereby gaining an understanding of the whole." "However, Rosen argues that reductionism does not work in biology and ignores the complexity of organisms. Life Itself, a landmark work, represents the scientific and intellectual journey that led Rosen to question reductionism and develop new scientific approaches to understanding the nature of life. Ultimately, Rosen proposes an answer to the original question about the causal basis of life in organisms. He asserts that renouncing the mechanistic and reductionistic models does not mean abandoning science. Instead, Rosen offers an alternate paradigm for science that takes into account the relational effects of organization in natural systems and is based on organized matter rather than on particulate matter alone."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / T.F.H. Allen and David W. Roberts -- Ch. 1. Prolegomenon -- Ch. 2. Strategic considerations : the special and the general -- Ch. 3. Some necessary epistemological considerations -- Ch. 4. concept of state -- Ch. 5. Entailment without states : relational biology -- Ch. 6. Analytic and synthetic models -- Ch. 7. On simulation -- Ch. 8. Machines and mechanisms -- Ch. 9. Relational theory of machines -- Ch. 10. Lift itself : the preliminary steps -- Ch. 11. Relational biology and biology.".
- catalog extent "xix, 285 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231075642".
- catalog isPartOf "Complexity in ecological systems series".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "c1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "574 20".
- catalog subject "Biological systems.".
- catalog subject "Biology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Life (Biology)".
- catalog subject "Life Origin.".
- catalog subject "QH325 .R57 1991".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / T.F.H. Allen and David W. Roberts -- Ch. 1. Prolegomenon -- Ch. 2. Strategic considerations : the special and the general -- Ch. 3. Some necessary epistemological considerations -- Ch. 4. concept of state -- Ch. 5. Entailment without states : relational biology -- Ch. 6. Analytic and synthetic models -- Ch. 7. On simulation -- Ch. 8. Machines and mechanisms -- Ch. 9. Relational theory of machines -- Ch. 10. Lift itself : the preliminary steps -- Ch. 11. Relational biology and biology.".
- catalog title "Life itself : a comprehensive inquiry into the nature, origin, and fabrication of life / Robert Rosen.".
- catalog type "text".