Are attractors 'strange', or is life more complicated than the simple laws of physics?
Interesting and intriguing questions involve complex systems whose properties cannot be explained fully by reductionist approaches. Last century was dominated by physics, and applying the simple laws of physics to biology appeared to be a practical solution to understand living organisms. However, although some attributes of living organisms involve physico-chemical properties, the genetic program and evolutionary history of complex biological systems make them unique and unpredictable. Furthermore, there are and will be 'unobservable' phenomena in biology which have to be accounted for.
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Ege University Center for Brain Research and School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Bornova, 35100, Izmir, Turkey. pogun@alpha.med.ege.edu.tr
D019369:Life; D055585:Physical Phenomena; D010825:Physics