Why are living things alive?
Bruce Holland
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Bruce Holland
Organizational Expert specializing in Strategy, Culture and Leadership Development. Increasing focus & energy throughout
When I look at emergent behaviour it often looks similar to life. Have you ever looked down into the sea from the end of a wharf and seen fish swimming in a school? They look far more like a single animal than a collection of individual fish.
Complexity scientist have shown that this behaviour emerges when each fish follows three simple rules: 1. Keep moving, 2. Stay close to your neighbour, and 3. Don’t bump into anything.
Is it possible that the billions of individual cells that make up you emerge into you by following a few equally simple rules? Could life be an emergent behaviour?
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7 年Very true Bruce . Life has a self emergent behaviour. Be it vegetative propogation or the dynamics of a living cell which make a tissue or the universe which is constantly expanding and has the solar systems that make up it's self emergent microcosm.
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7 年Humberto Maturana characterized living beings as having: -A production-of-self dynamics. id est, structural relationships that in their dynamics keep producing the living being. He called this production of self, autopoiesis, that means exactly that. -An ability to reproduce themselves in new living systems with similar autopoietic relationships Maturana's Autopoiesis is a very interesting device: https://biologyofcognition.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/maturana1975organizationlivingtheorylivingorganization.pdf