Section 4: TRACK 7
Beyond Mechanism:The Emergence and Evolution of Living Agents
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Track 7: Emergence and Evolution of Living Agents
We begin with the hypothesis that organisms are agents in the evolutionary process. The focus of the group is to explore how living agents emerged from so-called “inanimate nature” and how they evolved. Sessions will show how the hypothesis solves unsolved problems in the Neo-Darwinian synthesis and advances biological understanding of the natural world.
Other Tracks in this Section
- Track 1: Telling the Story: Systems, Processes, and the Present
- Track 2: Intuition in Mathematics and Physics
- Track 3: Systems Theory, Complexity Theory, and Radical Emergence
- Track 4: Neuroscience and Consciousness: Toward an Integral Paradigm
- Track 5: Ecologies, Becoming, Networks, and Value
- Track 6: Unprecedented Evolution: Human Continuities and Discontinuities with Animal Life
Track Heads
Adam Scarfe
Postings from Seizing an Alternative
- “Organisms, Memory, Quantum Physics, and Agency” By Philip Tryon
