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Nature of Life: Structuralism and Functionalities

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Purely from the naturalistic perspective, the phenomenon of life offers a challenge. There is no formal way to define what life is. In a generic sense, it is possible to think of life as a phenomenon having certain structuralism and/or having certain functionalities. This has always been implicit in the Darwinian paradigm and even in genomics. However, it is not possible, at least so far, to formalize both these notions of structural templates and functionalities of life. More importantly, it is not clear whether one can formalize the relationship between the structuralism per se and their biological functionalities. This lacuna has handicapped not just the Darwinian paradigm, but it has also stymied genomics. In this chapter, one would try to formalize the biological structuralism and its functionalities and their relationship using the formalism of the involuted manifold. This approach offers a paradigm shift in understanding both these disciplines.

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Chhaya, P. (2023). Nature of Life: Structuralism and Functionalities. In: The Topological Model of Genome and Evolution. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4318-0_1

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