Bridging the Gap: Does Closure to Efficient Causation Entail Quantum-Like Attributes?

Axiomathes

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 315-330

  Naranjo, José Raúl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Closure to efficient causation; Complementarity; Complex systems; Entanglement; Noncommutativity; Quantum; Relational biology; Robert Rosen

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958029512     PISSN: 11221151     EISSN: 15728390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10516-011-9146-z     Document Type: Article

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