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An Organisational Approach to Biological Communication.
Ramiro Frick1,2,3, Leonardo Bich4, Alvaro Moreno5
1Department of Sociology, Universidad Diego Portales, Manuel Rodríguez Sur 415, Santiago, Chile.
Acta Biotheoretica
|February 4, 2019
Summary
This paper presents a new organizational framework for biological communication. It redefines communication based on system organization and influence, broadening its scope beyond evolutionary adaptations to include synthetic biology.
Area of Science:
- Philosophy of Science
- Theoretical Biology
- Systems Biology
Background:
- Current definitions of biological communication often rely on evolutionary adaptations.
- This etiological functional framework may exclude phenomena studied in synthetic biology.
- Existing models struggle to encompass diverse communication instances.
Purpose of the Study:
- To provide a philosophical and theoretical account of biological communication.
- To reframe the influence approach in organizational terms.
- To distinguish communicative functions from other biological functions.
Main Methods:
- Developing an organizational approach to living systems.
- Applying the notion of influence to biological communication.
- Reframing functional aspects in terms of contributions to current system organization.
Main Results:
- The organizational-influence approach allows causal analysis of communication without etiological explanations.
- It enables understanding phenomena as communication even without evolutionary origins.
- This framework offers tools for designing and studying communication in synthetic biology.
Conclusions:
- The proposed organizational-influence approach offers a more inclusive and operational framework for biological communication.
- It bridges theoretical biology with experimental fields like synthetic biology.
- This theoretical advancement supports a broader understanding of signaling interactions in biological systems.
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