On the Existence of Synergies and the Separability of Closed Reaction Networks

Veloz, Tomás; Bassi, Alejandro; Maldonado, Pedro; Razeto, Pablo

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19432-1_7

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“…There are various mathematical properties that on the one hand facilitate their computation and on the other hand provide conceptual tools to understand the inner workings of selforganization. We will not dig in the details of the theory, but refer the interested reader to (Veloz and Razeto-Barry, 2017b;Veloz et al, 2018) and references therein. COT complements a solid and actively growing theoretical framework to study the dynamics of a reaction networks at both quantitative and qualitative level.…”

Section: Reaction Network Cot and Emergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…From here, several computational and structural properties have been developed in recent years. We will not dig further on the structural properties of closed sets but refer to (Veloz et al, 2018) for further analysis.…”

Section: Closed Reaction Networkmentioning

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“…Namely, we might not want specify constrains for species or reactions, but for subnetworks of the organization. Recall that organizations form a hierarchy, thus an organization might contain several organizations, and such organizations contain other structures that are relevant for the self-maintaining behaviour (Veloz et al, 2018). In particular, COT is equipped with various notions for decomposing a reaction network into parts which are dynamically independent, meaning that the productive processes can be disentangled into groups which do not affect each other, and thus contain independent feedback mechanisms.…”

Section: Organizations As Emergent Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Goals as Emergent Autopoietic Processes

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While the phenomena of reaching a goal is generally represented in the framework of optimization, the phenomena of becoming of a goal is more similar to a “self-organization and emergent” rather than an “optimization and preexisting” process. In this article we provide a modeling framework for the former alternative by representing goals as emergent autopoietic structures. In order to conceptually situate our approach, we first review some of the most remarkable attempts to formally define emergence, and identify that in most cases such definitions rely on a preexisting system to be observed prior and post emergence, being thus inadequate for a formalization of emergent goals corresponding to the becoming of a systems as such (e.g. emergence of life). Next, we review how an implementation of the reaction networks framework, known as Chemical Organization Theory (COT), can be applied to formalize autopoietic structures, providing a basis to operationalize goals as an emergent process. We next revisit the definitions of emergence under the light of our approach, and demonstrate that recent taxonomies developed to classify different forms of emergence can be naturally deduced from recent work aimed to explain the kinds of changes of the organizational structure of a reaction network.

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Section: Reaction Network Cot and Emergencementioning

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Section: Organizations As Emergent Goalsmentioning

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Goals as Emergent Autopoietic Processes

Veloz

2021

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“…When two or more organizations interact, a new reaction network is formed. As the new reaction network can have reactions that are not in any of the former organizations, the union of two (or more) organizations may or may not be an organization [34]. These new reactions can trigger new products, and thus the union is not necessarily closed.…”

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“…Moreover, in [28], Theorem 1 is extended to other stable asymptotic behaviors such as periodic orbits and limit cycles. In addition to these results, necessary conditions for the existence of adequate processes, and their relation to other theories that connect structure and dynamics such as Petri-Nets and Deficiency theory, are explored in [14,15,29], and algorithmic studies concerning the computation of the organizations of a reaction network are presented in [30][31][32][33][34].…”

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Goal Directedness, Chemical Organizations, and Cybernetic Mechanisms

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2021

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In this article, we attempt at developing a scenario for the self-organization of goal-directed systems out of networks of (chemical) reactions. Related scenarios have been proposed to explain the origin of life starting from autocatalytic sets, but these sets tend to be too unstable and dependent on their environment to maintain. We apply instead a framework called Chemical Organization Theory (COT), which shows mathematically under which conditions reaction networks are able to form self-maintaining, autopoietic organizations. We introduce the concepts of perturbation, action, and goal based on an operationalization of the notion of change developed within COT. Next, we incorporate the latter with notions native to the theory of cybernetics aimed to explain goal directedness: reference levels and negative feedback among others. To test and refine these theoretical results, we present some examples that illustrate our approach. We finally discuss how this could result in a realistic, step-by-step scenario for the evolution of goal directedness, thus providing a theoretical solution to the age-old question of the origins of purpose.

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Toward endosymbiosis modeling using reaction networks

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On the Existence of Synergies and the Separability of Closed Reaction Networks

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Goals as Emergent Autopoietic Processes

Goals as Emergent Autopoietic Processes

Goal Directedness, Chemical Organizations, and Cybernetic Mechanisms

Toward endosymbiosis modeling using reaction networks

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