Sistema vivo

Los sistemas vivos son formas de vida abiertas y autoorganizadas que interactúan con su entorno. Estos sistemas son mantenidos por flujos de información, energía y materia.

En las últimas décadas, se ha buscado establecer una teoría general de los sistemas vivos para explicar la naturaleza de la vida.^[1] La cual intenta mapear los principios generales de cómo funcionan todos los sistemas vivos, mientras explora los fenómenos en términos de patrones dinámicos de relaciones de los organismos con su entorno.

↑ Woodruff, T. Sullivan; John Baross (8 de octubre de 2007). Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology. Cambridge University Press. Cleland and Chyba wrote a chapter in Planets and Life: "In the absence of such a theory, we are in a position analogous to that of a 16th-century investigator trying to define 'water' in the absence of molecular theory." [...] "Without access to living things having a different historical origin, it is difficult and perhaps ultimately impossible to formulate an adequately general theory of the nature of living systems".

[1] Woodruff, T. Sullivan; John Baross (8 de octubre de 2007). Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology. Cambridge University Press. Cleland and Chyba wrote a chapter in Planets and Life: "In the absence of such a theory, we are in a position analogous to that of a 16th-century investigator trying to define 'water' in the absence of molecular theory." [...] "Without access to living things having a different historical origin, it is difficult and perhaps ultimately impossible to formulate an adequately general theory of the nature of living systems".

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