ملخص
We discuss Gánti[U+05F3]s approach to the study of minimal living organization, and suggest that his methodology can be applied to the study of the two other major teleological systems described by Aristotle: minimal consciousness (sentience, experiencing) and rationality. We start by outlining Gánti[U+05F3]s strategy for the case of life: listing the basic characteristics that any living system capable of open-ended evolution must satisfy, developing a dynamic model that instantiates these characteristics (the chemoton), and identifying a capacity of the system (unlimited heredity) that allows the system to dynamically persist over evolutionary time and to be used as a marker of the evolutionary transition to life. We apply Gánti[U+05F3]s explanatory strategy to the evolutionary transition to minimal consciousness, suggest a transition marker (unlimited associative learning) and discuss the wider evolutionary and philosophical implications of this approach.
اللغة الأصلية | الإنجليزيّة |
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الصفحات (من إلى) | 55-60 |
عدد الصفحات | 6 |
دورية | Journal of Theoretical Biology |
مستوى الصوت | 381 |
المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء | |
حالة النشر | نُشِر - 1 سبتمبر 2015 |
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