A diffuse biosemiotic model for cell-to-tissue computational closure

摘要

The adoption of diffuse rationality creates a practical bridge between biosemiotics and computation in formulating local-to-global self-consistent criteria for cellular-to-tissue interfacing and for the emergence of life and consciousness. Nature is always complex, the more so at biological membranic inter-scalar interfaces. We present an evolutionary model of the relationship between autonomy and dependence across scales, and describe the implications of its alternating complex-rational-complex nature. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. [References: 40]