Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Apr 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010oleb...40..137b&link_type=abstract
Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, Volume 40, Issue 2, pp.137-143
Mathematics
Logic
Darwin, Fuzzy Logic, Lamarck, Origin Of Life, Species
Scientific paper
Many scientists, including one of the authors of the present paper, have devoted time to try to find a definition for life (Bersini and Reisse 2007). It is clear that a consensus will never be reached but, more importantly, it seems that the issue itself could be without major interest. It is indeed impossible to define a “natural” frontier between non-living and living systems and therefore also impossible to define dichotomic criteria which could be used in order to classify systems in one of these two classes (living or non-living). Fuzzy logic provides a natural way to deal with problems where class membership lacks sharply defined criteria. It also offers the possibility to avoid losing time with unnecessary controversies such as deciding whether a virus is, or is not, a living system.
Bartik Kristin
Bruylants Gilles
Reisse Jacques
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