Beyond Descartes and Newton: Recovering life and humanity

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 219-244

  Kauffman, Stuart A ^a   Gare, Arran ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adjacent possibles; Enabling constraints; Endophysics; Functional closure; Measurement; Phenomenology; Purposeless teleology; Quantum mechanics; Statistical laws

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICS; PROCEDURES;

HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICS;

EID: 84949219908     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.06.003     Document Type: Review

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