creators_name: Baianu, I.C.
creators_id: icb
editors_name: Rashevsky, Nicolas
type: journalp
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title: Organismic Supercategores: II. On Multistable Systems


ispublished: pub
subjects: bio-evo
subjects: bio-theory
subjects: comp-neuro-sci
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory
subjects: comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys
subjects: comp-sci-stat-model
subjects: neuro-chem
subjects: neuro-mod
full_text_status: public
keywords: Supercategories and Functors, Homology Theory, Quantum Genetics, Relational Oscillations, Organismic Supercategories, Complex Bio-Systems, Observables Generating Diagram, Relational Biology, Multistability of Organisms
note: Supercategories are defined currently as n-categories or higher dimensional algebra, Axiomatic definitions of Categories and Supercategories of Relational, Complex Biological Systems, 

DOI: 10.1007/BF02476770
abstract: The representation of biological systems in terms of organismic supercategories, introduced in previous papers by Baianu et al. (Bull. Math. Biophysics,30, 625–636;31, 59–70) is further discussed. To state more clearly this representation some new definitions are introduced. Also, some necessary changes in axiomatics are made. The conclusion is reached that any organismic supercategory has at least one superpushout, and this expresses the fact that biological systems are multistable. This way a connection between some results of Rashevsky’s theory of organismic sets and our results becomes obvious.
date: 1970-11-21
date_type: published
publication: The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics
volume: 32
number: 4
publisher: Elsevier Publs. Co. and Springer reprints, DOI: 10.1007/BF02476770
pagerange: 539-561
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Baianu, Prof. Dr. I.C.  (1970) Organismic Supercategores: II. On Multistable Systems.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/7752/3/OSIImultist1970.pdf