Biological Organisation as Closure of Constraints

A paper characterizing biological organisation as closure of constraints. The companion cites it, with Maturana and Varela, for the organizational closure of biological metabolism, in which an organism produces the components that produce it. Agent metabolism lacks this closure, one of two cautions that keep the metabolic analogy honest (P2).

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §3)

Used for

P2Metabolism (limits of analogy); P2

Strand

Origins of life & metabolism · Origin & definition of life, autonomy

Cite

@article{montevil2015biological,
  title = {Biological Organisation as Closure of Constraints},
  author = {Maël Montévil and Matteo Mossio},
  year = {2015},
  journal = {Journal of Theoretical Biology},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.029},
}