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COLLECTIVE SELF‐ORGANIZATION IN GENERAL BIOLOGY: GILLES DELEUZE, CHARLES S. PEIRCE, AND STUART KAUFFMAN
Author(s) -
Gangle Rocco
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2006.00817.x
Subject(s) - semiotics , existentialism , epistemology , self organization , sociology , event (particle physics) , cognitive science , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
. Stuart Kauffman's proposal in Investigations to ground a “general biology” in the laws of self‐organization governing systems of autonomous agents runs up against the methodological problem of how to integrate formal mathematical with semantic and semiotic approaches to the study of evolutionary development. Gilles Deleuze's concept of the virtual and C. S. Peirce's system of existential graphs provide a theoretical framework and practical art for answering this problem of method by modeling the creative event of collective self‐organization as both represented and practiced in the scientific community.