title: Emerging concepts of self-organization and the living state.  Special issue.
abstract: This special issue present papers that examine the concept of self-organization in the origin of life.  Concepts explored include chaos and order in open systems, the origin of biochemical organization, non-cellular phases of life on clay, biodynamics necessary for the emergence of energy consumers, molecular evolution, order in self-oscillators, self-organization of semi-conductor physics, self-organizing behavior of microtubules in the cytoskeleton, biogenesis and physics, perceptive funcion, and an overview of the experimental realization of artificial intelligence.
mesh_terms: D001703:Biophysics; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology; D018534:Earth, Planet; D019418:Evolution, Chemical; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D000069497:Origin of Life