• DOI:10.1007/S10539-005-9003-9
Corpus ID: 1019575

On emergence, agency, and organization

@article{Kauffman2006OnEA,
  title={On emergence, agency, and organization},
  author={S. Kauffman and Philip Clayton},
  journal={Biology and Philosophy},
  year={2006},
  volume={21},
  pages={501-521}
}

• S. Kauffman, Philip Clayton
• Published 2006
• Biology
• Biology and Philosophy

Ultimately we will only understand biological agency when we have developed a theory of the organization of biological processes, and science is still a long way from attaining that goal. It may be possible nonetheless to develop a list of necessary conditions for the emergence of minimal biological agency. The authors offer a model of molecular autonomous agents which meets the five minimal physical conditions that are necessary (and, we believe, conjointly sufficient) for applying agential… Expand

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