Physical and Biological Emergence: Are They Different?

Eliano Pessa
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Eliano Pessa: Università di Pavia

A chapter in Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, 2006, pp 355-374 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper we compare the features of models of emergence introduced within theoretical physics, mainly to account for phenomenology of second-order phase transitions, with the requirements coming from observations of biological self-organization. We argue that, notwithstanding the deep differences between biological and non-biological systems, the methods of theoretical physics could, in principle, account even for the main features of biological emergence.

Keywords: emergence; reaction-diffusion systems; neural networks; quantum field theory; stochastic quantization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28898-8_25

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