Self-organization and computability
pp. 201-209
in: Arturo Carsetti (ed), Functional models of cognition, Berlin, Springer, 2000Abstract
In this paper we will use some ideas from the theory of computable functions in order to clarify certain imperfectly understood aspects of the theory of self-organizing systems [von Foerster 1960, Nicolis and Prigogine 1977, Eigen and Schuster 1979, Kauffman 1984].