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Tables of Contents for Essays on Life Itself
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
PART I: On Biology and Physics
1
56
The Schrodinger Question, What Is Life? Fifty-Five Years Later
5
28
Biological Challenges to Contemporary Paradigms of Physics and Mimetics
33
12
What Is Biology?
45
12
PART II: On Biology and the Mind
57
84
The Church-Pythagoras Thesis
63
19
Drawing the Boundary Between Subject and Object: Comments on the Mind-Brain Problem
82
14
Mind as Phenotype
96
19
On Psychomimesis
115
11
The Mind-Brain Problem and the Physics of Reductionism
126
15
PART III: On Genericity
141
56
Genericity as Information
145
11
Syntactics and Semantics in Languages
156
15
How Universal Is a Universal Unfolding?
171
4
System Closure and Dynamical Degeneracy
175
12
Some Random Thoughts About Chaos and Some Chaotic Thoughts About Randomness
187
10
PART IV: Similarity and Dissimilarity in Biology
197
74
Optimality in Biology and Medicine
201
23
Morphogenesis in Networks
224
22
Order and Disorder in Biological Control Systems
246
8
What Does It Take to Make an Organism?
254
17
PART V: On Biology and Technology
271
70
Some Lessons of Biology
275
8
Bionics Revisited
283
14
On the Philosophy of Craft
297
11
Cooperation and Chimera
308
16
Are Our Modeling Paradigms Nongeneric?
324
17
References
341
6
Index
347