title: A diffuse biosemiotic model for cell-to-tissue computational closure.
abstract: The adoption of diffuse rationality creates a practical bridge between biosemiotics and computation in formulating local-to-global self-consistent criteria for cellular-to-tissue interfacing and for the emergence of life and consciousness. Nature is always complex, the more so at biological membranic inter-scalar interfaces. We present an evolutionary model of the relationship between autonomy and dependence across scales, and describe the implications of its alternating complex-rational-complex nature.
authors.affiliation: The Evolutionary Processing Group (EVOL), Laboratory for Micro and Opto Electronics (LAMI), VUB Division of the Inter-University Micro Electronics Center (IMEC), The University of Brussels (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium. evol@etro.vub.ac.be
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cottam
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ranson
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vounckx
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D008954:Models, Biological