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How Organisms Gained Causal Independence and How It Might Be Quantified

Two broad features are jointly necessary for autonomous agency: organisational closure and the embodiment of an objective-function providing a ‘goal’: so far only organisms demonstrate both. Organisational closure has been studied (mostly in abstract), especially as cell autopoiesis and the cybernet...

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Autor principal: Farnsworth, Keith Douglas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29966241
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology7030038