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Complementarity and Closure
Author(s) -
ETXEBERRIA ARANTZA
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06279.x
Subject(s) - complementarity (molecular biology) , closure (psychology) , epistemology , mathematical economics , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , political science , biology , law , genetics
A bstract : This paper compares two different accounts of closure to explain biological organization: as an organization enabled by an informational control on dynamics (Pattee) and as an internal closure of a dynamic nature (Varela). The two of them adopt different versions of a principle of complementarity to relate symbolic and dynamic explanations.