Reimagining Life. Emergent Complexity from Non-Living to Living
Preprint, 2024

The development of naturalistic approaches to complexity of life continues a lineage of thought from Prigogine’s thermodynamics to contemporary complexity science. The paper highlights the central themes of self-organization, emergence, and the interplay between physical, informational, and biological processes. Prigogine’s concept of dissipative structures and irreversibility provided a foundation for understanding complexity in physical systems, which later expanded into biology through Kauffman’s models of creativity and evolution. Margulis's endosymbiosis theory illuminate the cooperative dynamics underpinning life’s complexity, while Walker's work integrates thermodynamics and information theory to bridge the gap between chemistry and biology through multiscale interactions and adaptive dynamics. By synthesizing these perspectives, this article situates life as an emergent phenomenon shaped by interactions across scales, proposing a unified framework for understanding complexity in the natural world.

Origins of Life

Self-Organization

Origins of Life

Biological Complexity

Life and Complexity

Multiscale Interactions

Dissipative Structures

Författare

Gordana Dodig Crnkovic

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Morfologiska beräkningar i kognitiva system (MORCOM@COGS)

Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (2015-05359), 2016-01-01 -- 2020-12-31.

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Annan data- och informationsvetenskap

Annan naturvetenskap

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Innovation och entreprenörskap

Fundament

Grundläggande vetenskaper

DOI

10.20944/preprints202411.1827.v1

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2025-01-23