Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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January 2000

Volume 901 CLOSURE: EMERGENT ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR DYNAMICS

Pages ix–xi, 1–349

  1. Frontmatter

    1. Top of page
    2. Frontmatter
    3. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part I. Closure, Mind, and Brain
    4. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part II. Closure and Hierarchy
    5. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part III. Closure, Emergence, and Evolution of Life
    6. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part IV. Closure, Semiosis, Autopoiesis, and Autocatalysis
    7. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part V. Closure, Information, and Thermodynamics
    8. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part VI. Epistomologies and Ontologies of Closure
    1. Preface (pages ix–xi)

      JERRY L.R. CHANDLER and GERTRUDIS VAN DE VIJVER

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06259.x

  2. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part I. Closure, Mind, and Brain

    1. Top of page
    2. Frontmatter
    3. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part I. Closure, Mind, and Brain
    4. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part II. Closure and Hierarchy
    5. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part III. Closure, Emergence, and Evolution of Life
    6. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part IV. Closure, Semiosis, Autopoiesis, and Autocatalysis
    7. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part V. Closure, Information, and Thermodynamics
    8. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part VI. Epistomologies and Ontologies of Closure
    1. Identification and Psychic Closure: A Dynamic Structuralist Approach of the Psyche (pages 1–12)

      GERTRUDIS VAN DE VIJVER

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06260.x

    2. Doing Time: The Emergence of Irreversibility (pages 13–25)

      PHILIP J. BOXER and BERNARD COHEN

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06261.x

    3. Regenerative Process in Life and Mind (pages 26–34)

      PETER CARIANI

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06262.x

    4. A Classification of Closure Concepts (pages 35–41)

      S. N. SALTHE

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06263.x

    5. Conceptual Closure: How Memories are Woven into an Interconnected Worldview (pages 42–53)

      LIANE M. GABORA

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06264.x

    6. Importance of Diversity: Reconciling Natural Selection and Noncompetitive Processes (pages 54–66)

      NORMAN L. JOHNSON

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06265.x

  3. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part II. Closure and Hierarchy

    1. Top of page
    2. Frontmatter
    3. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part I. Closure, Mind, and Brain
    4. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part II. Closure and Hierarchy
    5. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part III. Closure, Emergence, and Evolution of Life
    6. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part IV. Closure, Semiosis, Autopoiesis, and Autocatalysis
    7. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part V. Closure, Information, and Thermodynamics
    8. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part VI. Epistomologies and Ontologies of Closure
    1. Levels of Control and Closure in Complex Semiotic Systems (pages 67–74)

      CLIFF JOSLYN

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06266.x

    2. Complexity IX. Closure over the Organization of a Scientific Truth (pages 75–90)

      JERRY L.R. CHANDLER

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06267.x

    3. Closure, Open Systems, and the Modeling Imperative (pages 91–99)

      JUAN M. ALVAREZ DE LORENZANA

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06268.x

    4. Opening Up Closure: Semiotics Across Scales (pages 100–111)

      JAY L. LEMKE

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06269.x

    5. Closure, Identity, and the Emergence of Formal Causation (pages 112–121)

      ALVARO MORENO

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06270.x

  4. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part III. Closure, Emergence, and Evolution of Life

    1. Top of page
    2. Frontmatter
    3. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part I. Closure, Mind, and Brain
    4. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part II. Closure and Hierarchy
    5. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part III. Closure, Emergence, and Evolution of Life
    6. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part IV. Closure, Semiosis, Autopoiesis, and Autocatalysis
    7. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part V. Closure, Information, and Thermodynamics
    8. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part VI. Epistomologies and Ontologies of Closure
    1. Varieties of Chemical Closure: Three Kinds of Coherence Observed in Chemical Systems, and Their Relation to Societal Integration (pages 122–131)

      JOSEPH E. EARLEY SR.

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06271.x

    2. Closure in the Emergence and Evolution of Life: Multiple Discourses or One? (pages 132–138)

      BRUCE H. WEBER

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06272.x

    3. The Scientific Origin of Life: Considerations on the Evolution of Information, Leading to an Alternative Proposal for Explaining the Origin of the Cell, a Semantically Closed System (pages 139–147)

      MARIO VANEECHOUTTE

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06273.x

    4. The Rosetta Stone of Stability (pages 148–154)

      ERIC MINCH

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06274.x

  5. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part IV. Closure, Semiosis, Autopoiesis, and Autocatalysis

    1. Top of page
    2. Frontmatter
    3. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part I. Closure, Mind, and Brain
    4. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part II. Closure and Hierarchy
    5. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part III. Closure, Emergence, and Evolution of Life
    6. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part IV. Closure, Semiosis, Autopoiesis, and Autocatalysis
    7. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part V. Closure, Information, and Thermodynamics
    8. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part VI. Epistomologies and Ontologies of Closure
    1. From Autopoiesis to Semantic Closure (pages 155–162)

      JOHN STEWART

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06275.x

    2. Remarks on Autocatalysis and Autopoiesis (pages 163–174)

      BARRY McMULLIN

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06276.x

    3. Code-Duality and the Epistemic Cut (pages 175–186)

      JESPER HOFFMEYER

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06277.x

    4. Closure, Function, Emergence, Semiosis, and Life: The Same Idea? Reflections on the Concrete and the Abstract in Theoretical Biology (pages 187–197)

      CLAUS EMMECHE

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06278.x

    5. Complementarity and Closure (pages 198–206)

      ARANTZA ETXEBERRIA

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06279.x

    6. Syntactic Autonomy: Why There is No Autonomy Without Symbols and How Self-Organizing Systems Might Evolve Them (pages 207–223)

      LUIS MATEUS ROCHA

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06280.x

    7. Genomes and Form: The Case for Teleomorphic Recursivity (pages 224–236)

      RICHARD VON STERNBERG

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06281.x

  6. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part V. Closure, Information, and Thermodynamics

    1. Top of page
    2. Frontmatter
    3. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part I. Closure, Mind, and Brain
    4. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part II. Closure and Hierarchy
    5. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part III. Closure, Emergence, and Evolution of Life
    6. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part IV. Closure, Semiosis, Autopoiesis, and Autocatalysis
    7. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part V. Closure, Information, and Thermodynamics
    8. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part VI. Epistomologies and Ontologies of Closure
    1. Fundamental and Modal Processes in the Evolution of Natural Systems (pages 237–243)

      GEORGE L. FARRE

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06282.x

    2. Closure and Anticlosure in the Realm of Quantum Gravity: Why Evolution Needs No Origin (pages 244–256)

      MICHAEL CONRAD

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06283.x

    3. The Nature of the Organism: Life Has a Life of Its Own (pages 257–265)

      DANIEL R. BROOKS

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06284.x

    4. Ontic Closure and the Hierarchy of Scale (pages 266–271)

      ROBERT E. ULANOWICZ

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06285.x

    5. Active Motion, Communicative Aggregations, and the Spatial Closure of Umwelt (pages 272–279)

      KALEVI KULL

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06286.x

  7. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part VI. Epistomologies and Ontologies of Closure

    1. Top of page
    2. Frontmatter
    3. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part I. Closure, Mind, and Brain
    4. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part II. Closure and Hierarchy
    5. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part III. Closure, Emergence, and Evolution of Life
    6. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part IV. Closure, Semiosis, Autopoiesis, and Autocatalysis
    7. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part V. Closure, Information, and Thermodynamics
    8. Closure: Emergent Organizations and Their Dynamicsa: Part VI. Epistomologies and Ontologies of Closure
    1. Autonomy and Process Closure as the Basis for Functionality (pages 280–290)

      JOHN COLLIER

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06287.x

    2. The Organism and the Open System: Ervin Bauer and Ludwig von Bertalanffy (pages 291–300)

      SABINE BRAUCKMANN

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06288.x

    3. Organizational Closure and Conceptual Coherence (pages 301–310)

      BERNARD SCOTT

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06289.x

    4. Spontaneous Order, Autocatakinetic Closure, and the Development of Space-Time (pages 311–319)

      ROD SWENSON

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06290.x

    5. The Formal Nature of Emergent Biological Organization and Its Implications for Understandings of Closure (pages 320–331)

      MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06291.x

    6. The Internalist Stance: A Linguistic Practice Enclosing Dynamics (pages 332–349)

      KOICHIRO MATSUNO

      Article first published online: 25 JAN 2006 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06292.x

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