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Chapter 2.
"Biological Emergence and Inter-level Causation"
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1. Does the explanation of biological phenomena require appealing to ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ?
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In Chapter 1 we said that biological systems realise ๐™˜๐™ก๐™ค๐™จ๐™ช๐™ง๐™š: a causal regime ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐˜ from those at work in other physical and chemical natural systems, and thus an ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ property.
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Chapter 1.
"Constraints and organisational closure"
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1. The particular type of causal regime at work in biological organisation is ๐˜พ๐™ก๐™ค๐™จ๐™ช๐™ง๐™š. It combines:
* An open thermodynamic regime, and
* A closed organisation regime of ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™จ Image
2. ๐˜ฝ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ก๐™ค๐™œ๐™ž๐™˜๐™–๐™ก ๐™™๐™š๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™จ๐™š๐™ก๐™›-๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ
Closure can be defined in different contexts:

i. In general, a domain K is said to have closure if all operations defined in it remain within the same domain.
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"Life as autonomy" is an introductory section
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1. The main question of the book is how to characterise life?
A fundamental problem is the tension between the principle of continuity from inert to living, and the obvious differences between them.
2. Mainstream thinking emphasises the role of evolution and adaptation, i.e., the history of changes, but forgetting the organism, which becomes almost *dispensable*.
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