title: The organism and its double: an approach to the individual.
abstract: The individual is certainly the most complex entity that we know until now. Current research converges on a triad-like understanding of the biological individual as an interface of a mechanism and an ecosystem. The present article wants to propose a more generic concept of individual by integrating the functional role of its qualitative characteristics. Modules-problems ensuing from this generic model will serve as a matrix in the elaboration of a future integral biomathics, while category theory will be its syntactic base.
authors.affiliation: SPS/URBV, Faculty of Sciences, University of Namur, 61 rue de Bruxelles, 5000 Namur, Belgium. Electronic address: roland.cazalis@fundp.ac.be.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cazalis
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods*; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods*; D018511:Systems Integration
keywords: Autopoiesis; Biomathics; Category theory; Individual; Qualia