A Biophilosophical Approach to the Determination of Brain Death

CHEST Journal, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 165(4), С. 959 - 966

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Using Multilevel Temporal Factorisation to Analyse Structure and Dynamics for Higher-Order Adaptive and Evolutionary Processes

Lecture notes in computer science, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 378 - 392

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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A potential self-regulated drug delivery system actuated by a simple and double command

Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 137493 - 137493

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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An Investigation Into the Notion of Complex Systems

Foundations of Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 24, 2025

Язык: Английский

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On the Adaptive Interplay of Mirroring and Bonding by Homophily in Joint Decision Making: A Second-Order Adaptive Network Model

Communications in computer and information science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 280 - 298

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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There Are No Intermediate Stages: An Organizational View on Development

History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences, Год журнала: 2023, Номер unknown, С. 241 - 262

Опубликована: Ноя. 10, 2023

Abstract Theoretical accounts of development exhibit several internal tensions and face multiple challenges. They span from the problem identification temporal boundaries (beginning end) to characterization distinctive type change involved compared other biological processes. include questions such as role ascribe environment or what types systems can undergo whether they should colonies even ecosystems. In this chapter we discuss these conceptual issues, argue that adopting an organizational approach may help solve clarify them. While is usually identified with achievement adult form capability reproduce therefore maintain a lineage, provide different strategy, which focuses also on maintenance current organization organism. By doing so favors switch in perspective consists analyzing how organisms their viability at each moment rather than considering them going through intermediate stages process directed toward specific goal state. This developmental dimension has yet be given general detailed analysis within theoretical perspective, apart some preliminary attempts. How maintained series radical changes are issues still require clarification. offer beginnings transitions, understood functionality brought forth by regulatory mechanisms context continued every step.

Язык: Английский

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Organisational teleology 2.0: Grounding biological purposiveness in regulatory control

Ratio, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 37(4), С. 327 - 340

Опубликована: Май 24, 2024

Abstract This paper critically revises the organisational account of teleology, which argues that living systems are first and foremost oriented towards a goal: maintaining their own conditions existence. It points out some limitations this account, mainly in capability to for richness complexity biological purposeful behaviours. identifies reason these theoretical grounding specifically too narrow notion closure constraints, focused on self‐production. proposes ground an teleology system not just produce replace parts, but control internal dynamics behaviours such way as maintain themselves. framework has two advantages. better captures distinctive features organisations consequently active nature By doing so, it makes possible apply beyond minimal models real cases.

Язык: Английский

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Biological Organization

Опубликована: Дек. 4, 2024

Living systems are complex made of components that tend to degrade, but nonetheless they maintain themselves far from equilibrium. This requires living extract energy and materials the environment use them build repair their parts by regulating activities based on internal external conditions in ways allow keep living. The philosophical theoretical approach discussed this Element aims explain these features biological appealing organization. It addresses classical more recent issues philosophy biology, fromorigins definitions life teleology functions, an original perspective mainly focused system, its physiology behavior, rather than evolution. discusses revises conceptual foundations presents updated version it. title is also available as Open Access Cambridge Core.

Язык: Английский

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We need to explain subjective experience, but its explanation may not be mechanistic

Опубликована: Авг. 29, 2022

Models of consciousness need to explain both objective correlates conscious experience as well its subjective structure. However, such an explanation would not entail a reduction exclusively in terms physical or neural systems. We briefly sketch few points contention with recent work on integrated information theory and some common assumptions made the neuroscience more generally.

Язык: Английский

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Discovering autoinhibition as a design principle for the control of biological mechanisms

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 95, С. 145 - 157

Опубликована: Авг. 24, 2022

Autoinhibition is a design principle realized in many molecular mechanisms biology. After explicating the notion of and showing that autoinhibition such principle, we focus on how researchers discovered instances autoinhibition, using research establishing motors kinesin dynein as our case study. Research began fashion described accounts mechanistic explanation but, once had been discovered, they exhibited second phenomenon, autoinhibition. The discovery not only reverses pattern terms which philosophers have understood mechanism but runs counter to one phenomenon-one assumed relate phenomena explain. ubiquity therefore, necessitates philosophical understanding recognizes can participate more than phenomenon. Since with this are released from when acted by control mechanisms, advance revised account accommodates attribution multiple same distinguishes them other processes them.

Язык: Английский

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