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We comment on the preceding reviews of our book “Memory Evolutive Systems”, discussing the improvements proposed by some of the reviewers and answering to critics of others, in particular on the use of category theory for modeling living systems.

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Ehresmann, A.C., Vanbremeersch, JP. Some Comments on the Reviews. Axiomathes 19, 341–350 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-009-9074-3

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