The Map and the Territory: Complexity in Biology

Autor:	Fabio Burigana, Daniele Pellicano
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Microeconomics Philosophy Fragility Computer science sense organs Business case skin and connective tissue diseases Competitive advantage Organism Profit (economics) Gross domestic product Epistemology
Zdroj:	World Futures. 72:154-162
ISSN:	1556-1844 0260-4027
DOI:	10.1080/02604027.2016.1208039
Popis:	In business administration or in economics it is absolutely relevant not to consider indexes like profit growth rate or gross domestic product as exhaustive indexes for economic wealth. Likewise, in biology it is important not to confuse the representation of life with life itself. The most important concepts in biology are information, memory, structure, plasticity, and robustness. Information is the difference that makes the difference. Memories are information registered in an organism. Plasticity is the capacity of a living organism to change its own structure/sets of behaviors for having a competitive advantage. Robustness is the ability of a living organism to resist environmental changes without changing its own structure/sets of behavior, and fragility is when a living organism undergoes changes in its own structure without being able to resist non-adaptive changes.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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