Living systems maintain a certain 'unity' in their organization despite the various internal conflicts amongst the constituent parts. For instance, selfish genetic elements in genomes make copies of themselves at the expense of maintaining the whole genome.
I presented ongoing work on the formalization of life cycles.
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I participated in UNAM's 2nd symposium on the philosophy of computation, talking about the history and foundations of relational biology
I had a great time visiting the folks at the new School of Complex Adaptive Systems at ASU. I gave a talk on relational models of self-organization.