From bottom-up approaches to levels of organization and extended critical transitions

Biological thinking is structured by the notion of level of organization. We will show that this notion acquires a precise meaning in critical phenomena: they disrupt, by the appearance of infinite quantities, the mathematical (possibly equational) determination at a given level, when moving at a...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe eLongo, Maël Régis Montévil, Arnaud ePocheville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2012.00232/full