Autopoiesis with or without cognition: Defining life at its edge

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-107

  Bitbol, Michel ^a   Luisi, Pier Luigi ^b  

^a Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Cognition; Lipidic vesicles; Metabolism; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; LIFE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOGENESIS; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; LIFE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 33744760636     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2004.0012     Document Type: Article

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