Keyword: regulation

Leo Bich and Laura Menatti hey argue that life is not primarily about preserving equilibrium but about adapting and transforming in response to changing circumstances. Building on recent philosophical and biological work, they propose a shift from understanding health as stability to seeing it as the capacity for adaptive change — a dynamic process that […]

How could the first living systems learn to regulate themselves before the emergence of genes? In their new paper, Ben Shirt-Ediss, Arián Ferrero-Fernández, Daniele De Martino, Leonardo Bich, Álvaro Moreno, and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo tackle this question through Araudia, a novel simulation platform for studying protocell evolution. They show that simple protocell ecologies, composed of metabolically […]

Author: Leonardo Bich Date of publication: 04 December 2024 Publisher: Cambridge University Press The PDF version of this book is available here. Summary Living systems are complex systems made of components that tend to degrade, but nonetheless they maintain themselves far from equilibrium. This requires living systems to extract energy and materials from the environment […]

Published open-access in Ratio. Abstract: This paper critically revises the organisational account of teleology, which argues that living systems are first and foremost oriented towards a goal: maintaining their own conditions of existence. It points out some limitations of this account, mainly in the capability to account for the richness and complexity of biological systems […]

Published open access in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,  44(3), 38 Abstract: The definitions and conceptualizations of health, and the management of healthcare have been challenged by the current global scenarios (e.g., new diseases, new geographical distribution of diseases, effects of climate change on health, etc.) and by the ongoing scholarship in humanities […]