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Anticipatory systems. Philosophical, mathematical, and methodological foundations
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January 1985

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Robert Rosen

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... When this hierarchy is formalised as distinct levels of organisation, it is possible to examine the causal relations among levels to address questions about e.g. downward causation (Jaeger and Calkins 2012;Ellis 2012;Bechtel 2017;Farnsworth et al. 2017b) and the 'closure to efficient causation' (Rosen 1985a) used to explain autopoiesis (Bich et al. 2016;Mossio et al. 2013) and reinterpreted for the cell by Hofmeyr (2021). The premise here is that these matters, fundamental to understanding biological systems, are best explained in terms of explicitly physical information and causation, following (Farnsworth et al. 2013(Farnsworth et al. , 2017aFarnsworth 2018Farnsworth , 2021Farnsworth , 2022. ...

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How Physical Information Underlies Causation and the Emergence of Systems at all Biological Levels
Anticipatory systems. Philosophical, mathematical, and methodological foundations
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  • January 1985