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Robert Rosen’s (M,R)-systems are a class of relational models that define organisms. The realization of relational models plays a central role in his study of life, itself. Biology becomes identified with the class of material realizations of a certain kind of relational organization, exhibited in (M,R)-systems. In this paper I describe several realizations of (M,R)-systems, and in particular alternate realizations of the replication component.
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Louie, A.H. (M,R)-Systems and their Realizations. Axiomathes 16, 35–64 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-005-4203-0
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