This article addresses the issue of defining the universal properties of living systems through an organizational approach, according to which the distinctive properties of life lie in the functional organization which correlates its physicochemical components in living systems, and not in these components taken separately. Drawing on arguments grounded in this approach, this article identifies autonomy, with a set of related organiza- tional properties, as universal properties of life, and includes cognition within this set.

Life, autonomy and cognition: an organizational approach to the definition of the universal properties of life, 2012.

Life, autonomy and cognition: an organizational approach to the definition of the universal properties of life

DAMIANO, Luisa
2012-01-01

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of defining the universal properties of living systems through an organizational approach, according to which the distinctive properties of life lie in the functional organization which correlates its physicochemical components in living systems, and not in these components taken separately. Drawing on arguments grounded in this approach, this article identifies autonomy, with a set of related organiza- tional properties, as universal properties of life, and includes cognition within this set.
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2012
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