Complexity Reference: compref284 (BibTex)

Authors: Rosen,R

Year: 1985

Title: Organisms as Causal Systems Which Are Not Mechanisms: An Essay into the Nature of Complexity

Book Title: Theoretical Biology and Complexity: Three Essays on the Natural Philosophy of Complex Systems

Editors: Rosen,r

Publisher: Academic Press, London, pages: 165-203

Comments: Argues for an anti-reductionist platform based on a analysis of the assumptions behind much model making. Also claims to exhibit a possible counter-example to Church's Thesis based on protein folding.

Keywords: PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, BIOLOGY, COMPLEXITY,

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