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A bold reimagining of life that bridges science, philosophy, cybernetics, and the complexities of biological existence
The Organism Is a Theory is an intriguing synthesis of decades of interdisciplinary research by eminent mathematician and biological scientist Giuseppe Longo. A unique collaboration between Longo and philosopher of technology Adam Nocek, the volume confronts foundational issues in the history of mathematics, computer science, physics, and theoretical biology.
Challenging conventional approaches that apply computational and formalist models to the biological world, Longo reveals how the limitations of these models hinder the understanding of organismic complexity, development, and evolution. Through a critique of dominant scientific paradigms, he emphasizes the need for a new biological theory that accounts for the temporal and spatial intricacies of life. Enhanced by Nocek's comprehensive introduction and a fascinating three-part interview with Longo, The Organism Is a Theory offers a bold rethinking of the biosciences, integrating the work of Alan Turing, Bernhard Riemann, Henri PoincarÉ, Kurt GÖdel, and others into Longo's vision of critical biology.
Bridging scientific and philosophical discourses, this book creatively applies insights from mathematics, physics, and computing into the study of the organism to present a new theoretical approach to understanding biological complexity that resists reductive mechanistic and informatic explanations.
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Contents
Contents
Part I. Introducing Giuseppe Longo
1. The Power of the Negative, or On the Evolution of Mathematics, Computing, and Biology
Adam Nocek
2. A Conversation with Giuseppe Longo
Giuseppe Longo and Adam Nocek
Part II: Essays
3. Letter to Turing
Giuseppe Longo
4. Extended Criticality, Phase Spaces, and Enablement in Biology
Giuseppe Longo and Maël Montévil
5. Confusing Biological Rhythms and Physical Clocks: Today's Ecological Relevance of Bergson-Einstein Debate on Time
Giuseppe Longo
6. Naturalizing Physics, or Embedding Physics in the Historicity and Materiality of the Living
Giuseppe Longo
7. Information, Science, and Democracy, for an Ethics of Scientific Knowledge
Giuseppe Longo
8. Saving Science. And Beyond.
Mariano Bizzarri, Ana M. Soto, Carlos Sonnenschein, and Giuseppe Longo
9. Philosophy, Biology, and Their Organisms, or The Prospects for Philosophical and Theoretical Biologies
Adam Nocek
Index
