Greater than the sum of its parts III. Information processing subsystems.
A description is provided of the current state of scientific knowledge regarding the subsystems of living systems, concentrating on the first three information processing subsystems. Living systems theory (LST) maintains that all of the huge variety of living entities that have been produced throug...
| Publicado en: | Behavioral Science Vol. 40; pp. 171 - 270 |
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
July 1995
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