title: Contrasting Two Representations of Emergence of Cellular Dynamics
creator: Chandler, Jerry
creator: Ehresmann, Andrée
creator: Vanbremeersch, JeanPaul
subject: Theoretical Biology
subject: Complexity Theory
description: The organization of molecular and biological dynamics of a single cell is contrasted in terms of two general theories:  1. Memory Evolutive Systems (MES) which present a mathematical model, based on category theory, for evolving self-organized hierarchical systems and have been developed in a series of papers by Ehresmann and Vanbremeersch since 1987; and   2. the C8 hypothesis of Chandler (1991-92) which proposes specific methods of enumerating complexity. Both theories give account of the hierarchical conformation of the cell and of its growth relying on a sequence of events during which manifestations of biological strategies emerge from exchanges with the environment and internal assemblies or disassemblies of higher complex structures. They indicate how a balanced cellular flow is achieved through the interactions among a net of overlapping cyclic internal communications channels. If a conflict arises, the biological coherence is restored by accelerating, delaying or inhibiting some of the cycles, thus explaining the simultaneous plasticity and bounded stability of a cell. The potential melding of these two theories to create applications describing the organization of evolutionary systems is being explored. 
publisher: International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.Windsor, Canada
contributor: Lasker, George
contributor: Farre, George
date: 1995
type: Conference Paper
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1659/1/Baden-Baden_95.htm
identifier:   Chandler, Jerry and Ehresmann, Andrée and Vanbremeersch, JeanPaul  (1995) Contrasting Two Representations of Emergence of Cellular Dynamics.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/1659/