On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:10 PM, John Kennison <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Leigh,
>
> <snip>
> Nick introduced me to Rosen’s “Life Itself” and I have skimmed some articles
> by Rosen. I am both fascinated and disappointed by Rosen’s work. Fascinated
> by what Rosen says about the need to develop radically different kinds of
> models to deal with biological phenomena and disappointed by Rosen’s
> heavy-handed stabs at developing such models. And yet still stimulated
> because I have enough ego to believe that with my mathematical and
> category-theoretic background, I might succeed where Rosen failed.
Category theory has been mentioned several times, especially in the early days
of friam. Could you help us out and discuss how it could be applied here? CT
certainly looks fascinating but thus far I've failed to grasp it. I'd love a
concrete example (like how to address Rosen's world) of it's use, and possibly
a good introduction (book, article).
---- Owen
I am an iPad, resistance is futile!
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