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} }
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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