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--- abstract: | 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. altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: August 1995 conference: Intersymp'95 Baden-Baden confloc: Baden-Baden contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Chandler given: Jerry honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Ehresmann given: Andr�e honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Vanbremeersch given: JeanPaul honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1995 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-09-23 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/16/59 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Lasker given: George honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Farre given: George honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1659 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/1659/1/Baden%2DBaden_95.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Mathematical model, biological system, cell, communication channel' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:44 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: 'International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.Windsor, Canada' refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Ehresmann, A.C. & Vanbremeersch, J.-P. (1987), Hierarchical Evolutive Systems: A mathematical model for complex systems; Bull. of Math. Bio. 49 (1) (pp. 13-50). Papers by the same authors deposited in Cogprints relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:39:29 subjects: - bio-theory - comp-sci-complex-theory succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Contrasting Two Representations of Emergence of Cellular Dynamics type: confpaper userid: 573 volume: ~