Abstract

Relational biology is a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems, independent of any particular physical mechanism or material realization. Anticipatory systems and metabolism–repair (M,R)-systems are two classes of relational models that characterize life. In this paper, I explore the connections between them: I explicate the circumstances under which anticipation occurs in an (M,R)-system, and show that the entailment pattern of an anticipatory system may be represented as a network of metabolism and repair components.

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