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Title: Life and the Homeostatic Organization View of Biological Phenomena.
Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 361 KB

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1. ORGANISMS, HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION, AND HOMEOSTASIS Ultimately, it will be argued that the components and attending processes of an organism must be considered as living, emergent phenomena because of the way in which the components are organized to maintain homeostasis of the organism at the various levels in the organismic hierarchy. Before this is accomplished, however, it is necessary to show that the processes in which the components of this hierarchy are engaged produce homeostasis through abilities to internally exchange data, selectively convert data to information, integrate that information, and process information from environments.