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16 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.cdf.10409
- eisbn: 9782722605602
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Thomas Lecuit, « The Dynamics of Living Systems », Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/books.cdf.10409
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Mr Administrator,My dear colleagues,My dear friends,Ladies and gentlemen, What is life? Though life appears self-evident, it actually remains quite elusive. Is it a substance, a structure, a process? For Henri Bergson, “life is evolution”; “the organism changes at every moment. That which is real is the continuous evolution of form: form is only an instantaneous snapshot of a transition”. These words highlight a central property of living systems, namely an internal power of transformation, m...