title: Complementarity and closure
abstract: This paper compares two different accounts of closure to explain biological organization: as an organization enabled by an informational control on dynamics (Pattee) and as an internal closure of a dynamic nature (Varela). The two of them adopt different versions of a principle of complementarity to relate symbolic and dynamic explanations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
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authors.lastname: Etxeberria