The Nature of Organization in Living Systems

March 5, 2025

This paper explores how life organizes itself despite constantly changing materials. Living things maintain their structure by balancing creation and breakdown, much like a city that continuously rebuilds itself while staying recognizable. The authors propose a mathematical way to describe this self-organization, showing that life isn’t just about molecules but the ongoing processes that sustain it. By focusing on patterns rather than specific materials, their framework could help define life in a way that applies beyond Earth.

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🡢 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.03950v1

Pedro Márquez-Zacarías, Andrés Ortiz-Muñoz and Emma Bingham

https://www.organism.earth/library/docs/pedro-marquez-zacarias/headshot-square.webp

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