title: The general entity of life: a cybernetic approach.
abstract: Life, not only in the well-known context of biochemical metabolism but also in the context of hypothetical life synthesized laboratorially or possibly found on other planets, is considered in this paper. The three-component information-energetic-structural irreducible processing in autonomous systems is the core of the proposed approach. The cybernetic organization of a general entity of life--the alivon--is postulated. The crucial properties of life and evolution are derived from the proposed approach. Information encoded in biological structures is also studied.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automation, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Chair of Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Cracow, Poland, azbielecki@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bielecki
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003491:Cybernetics; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D000069497:Origin of Life