Preface -- Prolegomenon to a general biology -- Origins of life -- Autonomous agents -- Propagating organization -- Physics of semantics? -- Emergence and story : beyond Newton, Einstein, and Bohr? -- Nonergodic universe : the possibility of new laws -- Candidate laws for the coconstruction of a biosphere -- Persistently innovative econosphere -- Coconstructing cosmos? -- Epilogue
Summary
Offers an investigation of the basis of life itself. By defining and explaining autonomous agents and work in the contexts of thermodynamics and of information theory, this work explores the requirements for the emergence of a general biology that transcends terrestrial biology to seek laws governing biospheres anywhere in the cosmos
