Intangible Life Functorial Connections in Relational Biology

This rare publication continues an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of biology in terms of the organization of networked connections in living systems. It builds on the author’s two earlier monographs which looked at the epistemology of life and the ontogeny of life. Here the empha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Louie, A.H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Anticipation Science
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • PART I:  Potestas:  The Power Set Functor
  • Chapter 1. Prooemium:  Relations
  • Chapter 2.  Solus:  Mappings
  • Chapter 3. Congeries:  Set-Valued Mappings
  • Chapter 4. Coniunctio:  Functorial Connections
  • Part II: Sicut:  Natural Law and the Modelling Relation
  • Chapter 5. Modus:  Rational Nature
  • Chapter 6. Opera:  By-Products and Side-Effects
  • Chapter 7. Metabolism and Repair
  • Chapter 8. Replication
  • PART III:  Dimissio:  From Invertibility to Adjunction
  • Chapter 9. Equivalence
  • Chapter 10. Adjunction
  • Chapter 11. Descartes and Galois
  • Chapter 12. Free and Forgetful
  • Chapter 13. Power and Riches
  • Acknowledgment
  • Bibliography
  • Index