This paper proposes abstract biology as a method to understand living systems, suggesting new insights into interdisciplinary connections.
This paper explores the concept of abstract biology as a possible framework for understanding life through relations, structures, and organizational principles rather than material substrates. Inspired by the traditions of relational biology [1] (Rashevsky, Rosen) and theoretical biology, the idea is that abstract models may help to identify general laws of living systems, independent of biochemical details. In this perspective, abstract biology can be viewed as an interdisciplinary field linking biology, mathematics, philosophy, and systems theory, with the potential to offer transferable models for both natural and artificial domains.
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