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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"
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Cycles Lotka pioneered the view of
biological systems as endless cycles. Not only is a biological system a network
of chemical agents (one chemical reaction leading to another one), but these
agents somehow yield a cycling structure. The cycle helps the network exist,
assume an identity and grow. This behavior is typical of life. Lotka named it
“autocatalysis” (“Contribution to the Theory of Periodic Reactions”, 1910). Indirectly, Lotka was also one of the first
scientists to show that biology was chemistry, and chemistry biology. Back to the beginning of the chapter "The Physics Of Life" | Back to the index of all chapters |
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