Publications [#385520] of William Seaman

Articles Published

1. Simeonov, PL; Brezina, EH; Cottam, R; Ehresmann, AC; Gare, A; Goranson, T; Gomez-Ramirez, J; Josephson, BD; Marchal, B; Matsuno, K; Root-Bernstein, RS; Rössler, OE; Salthe, SN; Schroeder, MJ; Seaman, B; Siregar, P; Smith, LS, Stepping beyond the newtonian paradigm in biology towards an integrable model of life: Accelerating discovery in the biological foundations of science, in Integral Biomathics Tracing the Road to Reality (January, 2012), pp. 319-417 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/15)

   Abstract:
   The INBIOSA project brings together a group of experts across many disciplines who believe that science requires a revolutionary transformative step in order to address many of the vexing challenges presented by the world. It is INBIOSA’s purpose to enable the focused collaboration of an interdisciplinary community of original thinkers. This paper sets out the case for support for this effort. The focus of the transformative research program proposal is biology-centric. We admit that biology to date has been more fact-oriented and less theoretical than physics. However, the key leverageable idea is that careful extension of the science of living systems can be more effectively applied to some of our most vexing modern problems than the prevailing scheme, derived from abstractions in physics. While these have some universal application and demonstrate computational advantages, they are not theoretically mandated for the living. A new set of mathematical abstractions derived from biology can now be similarly extended. This is made possible by leveraging new formal tools to understand abstraction and enable computability. [The latter has a much expanded meaning in our context from the one known and used in computer science and biology today, that is "by rote algorithmic means", since it is not known if a living system is computable in this sense (Mossio et al., 2009).] Two major challenges constitute the effort.