Spontaneous Order, Edge of Chaos and Artificial Life as Missing Ideas in Understanding Life

• Authors: Gecow Andrzej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The hypothesis “life on the edge of chaos” results from the stability of RBN, but living objects are not random; their structure and function are selected just for stability by Darwinian natural selection. The order of a crystal emerges spontaneously. The networks modeling living objects can be simultaneously ordered and chaotic on a similar level. They use chaotic parameters of RBNs. It is another edge of chaos. Definitions of artifacts are subjective and imprecise; problem should be described in other perspective. Basic properties of natural life (including the role of purpose) result from its spontaneity, which suggests a limit of using artificial life in investigations of life.

Keywords

EN

spontaneous order; edge of chaos; natural life; artificial life; biological information; purposefulness

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 63-80

Contributors

author

Gecow Andrzej

• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences