Computational Treatment for Life Science | Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science. 2021. № 61. DOI: 10.17223/1998863X/61/5

Computational Treatment for Life Science

According to some critics, if biology is a kind of reverse engineering for the nature, it is quite poorly prepared for the task. Thus, the issue is more likely with its ontology. Multiple hypotheses and conjectures found in papers on methodological issues claim that living systems should be viewed as complex networks of signal-transmitting paths, both neural and non-neural, that feature modularity and feedback circuits and are prone to emergent properties and increasing complexity. If so, we are on the eve of a new stage in computer models development where not only computers are used to emulate life, but life itself is construed as a complex network of interacting natural computers.

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ontology, computation, biology, mathematics, theory

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Mikhailov Igor F.	Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences	ifmikhailov@gmail.com; http://eng.iph.ras.ru/igor_mikhailov.htm

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