Intangible Life Functorial Connections in Relational Biology /

• Main Author: Louie, A.H (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Anticipation Science, 2
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Biology > Philosophy.; Life sciences.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; Biomathematics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Philosophy of Biology.; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.; Life Sciences, general.; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks.

This rare publication continues an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of biology in terms of the organization of networked connections in living systems. It builds on the author’s two earlier monographs which looked at the epistemology of life and the ontogeny of life. Here the empha...

Table of Contents:

• PART I:  Potestas:  The Power Set Functor
• Chapter 1. Prooemium:  Relations
• Chapter 2.  Solus:  Mappings
• Chapter 3. Congeries:  Set-Valued Mappings
• Chapter 4. Coniunctio:  Functorial Connections
• Part II: Sicut:  Natural Law and the Modelling Relation
• Chapter 5. Modus:  Rational Nature
• Chapter 6. Opera:  By-Products and Side-Effects
• Chapter 7. Metabolism and Repair
• Chapter 8. Replication
• PART III:  Dimissio:  From Invertibility to Adjunction
• Chapter 9. Equivalence
• Chapter 10. Adjunction
• Chapter 11. Descartes and Galois
• Chapter 12. Free and Forgetful
• Chapter 13. Power and Riches
• Acknowledgment
• Bibliography
• Index.