Categorical ontology of complex spacetime structures: The emergence of life and human consciousness

Axiomathes

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 223-352

  Baianu, I C ^a   Brown, R ^b   Glazebrook, J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical ontology and the theory of levels; Relational biology principles; Space, time, chronotopoids and spacetime, ST; ST in automata vs. quantum automata and organisms; What is life and life's multiple logics, LM and Q logic

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649022166     PISSN: 11221151     EISSN: 15728390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10516-007-9011-2     Document Type: Article

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