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Abstract biological systems as sequential machines

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It is shown that a rather close relationship exists between the (ℳ,ℛ)-systems, defined previously as prototypes of abstract biological systems, and the sequential machines which have been studied by various authors. The theory of sequential machines is reformulated in a way suitable for its application to the study of the intertransformability of (ℳ,ℛ)-systems as a result of environmental alteration. The important concept of strong connectedness is most useful in this direction, and is used to derive a number of results on intertransformability. Some suggestions are made for further studies along these lines.

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    Robert Rosen

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Rosen, R. Abstract biological systems as sequential machines. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 26, 103–111 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476831

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