Living System
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A Living System is a self-replicating system whose ancestor arose in primordial earth.
- AKA: Biological System.
- Context:
- It must have a Metabolic Process.
- It must have a Procreation Process.
- It can composed of Biological Entities/Biological Systems.
- It can (typically) have a Birth Period.
- It can (typically) have a Death Period.
- It can have other Biological Processes.
- It can live within an Ecosystem.
- It can contain a Circulatory System, Respiratory System, Nervous System, ...
- Example(s):
- any Organism.
- Context:
- It can (typcailly) contain Cellular Systems (and molecular systems).
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Non-Living System, such as an Intelligent Machine.
- a Formal System.
- See: Parasitic System, Biological Evolution, Organ (Anatomy), Mammals, Human Anatomy, Organism, Human Body.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/biological_system Retrieved:2014-6-12.
- In biology, a biological system (or organ system or body system) is a group of organs that work together to perform a certain task. Common systems, such as those present in mammals and other animals, seen in human anatomy, are those such as the circulatory system, the respiratory system, the nervous system, etc.
A group of systems composes an organism, e.g. the human body.
- In biology, a biological system (or organ system or body system) is a group of organs that work together to perform a certain task. Common systems, such as those present in mammals and other animals, seen in human anatomy, are those such as the circulatory system, the respiratory system, the nervous system, etc.
- (Navlakha & Bar-Joseph, 2014) ⇒ Saket Navlakha, and Ziv Bar-Joseph. (2014). “Distributed Information Processing in Biological and Computational Systems.” In: Communications of the ACM Journal, 58(1). doi:10.1145/2678280
- QUOTE: Exploring the similarities and differences between distributed computations in biological and computational systems.
Biological systems, ranging from the molecular to the cellular to the organism level, are distributed and in most cases operate without central control. Such systems must solve information processing problems that are often very similar to problems faced by computational systems, including coordinated decision making, 29 leader election, 2 routing and navigation, 52 and more.42
- QUOTE: Exploring the similarities and differences between distributed computations in biological and computational systems.