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Simplexity: Simplifying Principles for a Complex World

Alain Berthoz

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780300169348

Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013

DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300169348.001.0001

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Making the Complex Simplex

Making the Complex Simplex

Chapter:
(p.3) 1. Making the Complex Simplex
Source:
Simplexity
Author(s):

Alain Berthoz

Publisher:
Yale University Press
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300169348.003.0001

This chapter discusses genetics and simplexity. It presents a list of basic characteristics of life that rely on simplex properties that constitute tools for life: modularity; speed; reliability; flexibility, vicariance, and adaptation to change; memory; and generalization.

Keywords:   genetics, simplexity, modularity, speed, reliability, flexibility, vicariance, adaptation, memory, generalization

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