Robert Rosen: The well-posed question and its answer - Why are organisms different from machines?

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 419-432

  Mikulecky, Donald C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Epistemology; Organism; Relational biology; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034370541     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1743(200009/10)17:5<419::AID-SRES367>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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