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Life itself: a comprehensive inquiry into the nature, origin, and fabrication of life
Abstract
1. Prolegomenon2. Strategic Considerations: The Special and the General3. Some Necessary Epistemological Considerations4. The Concept of State5. Entailment Without States: Relational Biology6. Analytic and Synthetic Models7. On Simulation8. Machines and Mechanisms9. Relational Theory of Machines10. Life Itself: The Preliminary Steps11. Relational Biology and Biology
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Metadata
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1992-04-01
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 08
- Pages
- 29-4505-29-4505
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
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- W643863419
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- book review
- Language
- en
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- closed
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