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adaptation, 66, 778, 143

Carnap, Rudolf, 187
Allen, Colin, 118
causality
allostery, 37
manipulative theory of causality, 9, 148,
Alpha Centauri, 188
151, 153
analogy, 131
teleology, 2, 9, 1478, 1501, 1535,
analogy , 126, 131
1579
Aristotle, 126
cell fate, 17, 246, 63, 195
artificial intelligence, 118, 126
cell populations, 23, 27, 48, 64
Artificial Moral Agents, 118
chaos, 23, 257
Asimov, Isaac, 208
chemistry, 1, 34, 17, 29, 31, 33, 36, 142,
assistance, 6, 75, 80
150, 1545, 158, 173, 184
gait, 76, 79
classification, 7, 103, 10811, 114, 167
attraction, 168
co-evolution, 76
attractor(s), 23, 279, 512, 545, 5760, collection, 11, 92, 11011, 165
624
complexity, 12, 4, 78, 13, 1516, 25, 33,
average, 22, 29, 37, 72
65, 71, 78, 83, 859, 91, 956, 99101,
108, 124, 130, 1338, 1402, 1446,
bacteria, 26, 28, 345, 57, 138, 141
181, 183, 187, 18991
basin of attraction, 51, 55
dynamic, 133, 136
Bechtel, William
structural, 8, 140, 142
dynamic mechanistic explanation , 96
complex networks, 13
Bechtel, William , 149
computation, 35, 701, 76, 80, 86, 131
bifurcation, 57, 5963
consistency, 182
biological noise, 235, 28
correlation, 27, 35, 106
biological systems, 4, 68, 85, 90, 923, 133 crystal, 4, 37, 39
42, 1446
cybernetics, 68, 85
biology, xviii, 17, 910, 1417, 23, 259, Czikszentmihalyi, Mihalyi, 124
31, 367, 39, 416, 49, 567, 60, 634,
837, 903, 956, 98, 1001, 1034, Darden, Lindley, 149
106, 110, 112, 1334, 136, 13840, degrees of freedom, 65, 71, 121
142, 1459, 151, 1539, 162, 169
design optimization, 130
molecular, 84, 91
deterministic, 5, 14, 18, 223, 256, 29,
biomechatronics, 5
429, 624, 118
bio-ontologies, 103, 11214
disease, 7, 14, 412, 87, 10311, 143
biorobotics, 678, 72
disease patterns, 104
Brahe, Tycho, 184
distance(s), 11, 36, 188
drug response, 1046, 108, 114
calculation, 80
Duhem, Pierre, 183, 189

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dynamical system, 27
interaction, 6, 14, 28, 356, 46, 53, 64, 67,
dynamics, 26, 10, 1719, 256, 289, 32,
702, 748, 84, 114, 12930, 146, 148,
44, 46, 504, 57, 5960, 634, 712,
151, 153, 168
76, 78, 867, 97, 121, 133, 146
physical, 70, 74
interdisciplinarity, 99
embodied intelligence, 2, 6, 8, 73, 1234,
127, 130, 132
Kepler, Johannes, 183
environment, 1, 56, 22, 25, 49, 55, 63, 66, Kuhn, Thomas, 185
6971, 768, 80, 101, 113, 11819, Kvanvig, Jonathan, 165
127, 12930, 136, 145, 156, 168, 180
laws
1, 184, 1901
natural laws, 33
epistemology, xiv, 7, 131, 157
LENAR, 789
ergodic, 48
evolution, 10, 201, 33, 35, 63, 69, 118, 134, limits of the predictability, 141
linear response, 17, 1922, 29
1369
explanation, 2, 7, 9, 423, 49, 96, 989, 111, Lodge, Oliver, 174
137, 139, 1467, 14950, 1524, 161 logos, 35, 10
Lorenz, Konrad, 157
5, 175, 178, 181, 183, 189
causal, 14950
Machamer, Peter, 149
mechanistic, 96, 162
machanisms
simulacrum, 162
undriven, 136
macroscopic, 45, 17, 25, 29, 33, 41, 49, 64
factivity, 1712
map, 27, 36, 91, 95, 110, 112, 114, 154, 1657,
flexibility, 334, 83, 98, 1001
171
flow cytometry, 22, 478
mass-action, 15, 17, 19, 21
Galilei, Galileo, 80, 1856, 188
mathematical models, 80, 98
gene expression noise, 47, 58, 62
Mayr, Ernst, 154
gene expressions, 15, 27
mechanism, 9, 15, 28, 52, 54, 72, 989, 121,
gene regulatory network (GRN), 28
1389, 14851, 1545, 164, 16970,
Glennan, Stuart S. , 14850
185
Godfrey-Smith, Peter, 221
mechanisms, 1, 1415, 17, 212, 25, 28, 36, 45,
granularity, 108, 110, 114
68, 71, 1089, 124, 1367, 140, 14852,
graph(s), 17, 37, 45
156, 1612, 167, 169, 1734, 1767
externalist, 136
Hacking, Ian, 185
internalist, 136
Harr, Rom, 149
mechatronics, 130
Harriot, Thomas, 186
medicine
Herodotus, 181
molecular, 103
Hindriks, Frank, 167
personalized, 1035, 107, 111
human-robot system, 130
mesoscopic, 7, 84, 8790, 94
metaphysics, 114
immune response, 4
microarrays, 13, 49
impediments to predictability, 141
microscopic, 4, 25, 29, 33, 41, 49, 624
instability, 136
models
instruction, 623
adjustable, 167, 173, 1767
integration, 1, 14, 84, 87, 11112, 114, 180
contrastive, 167, 173, 1767
intelligence, 69, 71, 80, 119, 1268, 130,
false, 9, 164, 1667, 16972, 176
132, 190
non-referential, 167, 170
intentionality, 69
template, 167, 173, 1767
modules, 1517

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molecular biomarkers, 105
moral agent, 131
morphological computation, 70
Morrison, Margaret, 175
multi-stability, 5, 54, 56

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robotics, 12, 4, 6, 8, 10, 679, 756, 78,

11819, 123, 127, 1302

scale-free, 14, 89
scientific practice, 34, 810, 83, 85, 101,
111, 151, 1901
natural selection, 169
selection, 27, 33, 35, 623, 121, 1378, 146
network(s), 14, 17, 1921, 279, 32, 37, 45,
7, 169, 181
507, 635, 869, 934, 97, 101
sensitivity, 279, 66, 78, 88, 97, 100, 105,
Nicomachean Ethics, 125
118, 182
Nile, 181
signal transduction, 15
non-ergodic, 48
simplexity, 72
non-linear dynamics, 5
simplicity, 33, 141, 165, 182, 184
novel facts, 13841
single cell, 23, 25, 29, 111
novelty, 84, 134, 13840
Stahl, Georg Ernest , 184
state space, 525, 58, 61
octopus, 713
stochastic, 5, 17, 25, 29, 44, 46, 49, 623
ontology, 109, 11213, 177, 207
stochasticity, 5, 23, 25, 278, 43, 45, 47, 62, 64
ordinary differential equation, 56
stratification, 2, 7, 103, 1067, 109, 114
surrogative reasoning, 163, 166, 174
parameter space, 623, 97
symbionts, 76
perturbation, 15, 1821, 44, 88
symbiosis, 76
pharmacogenomics, 108
synthetic biology, 100
phenotype, 5, 412, 445, 50, 63, 140
systems biology, 3, 7, 43, 837, 90, 93, 956,
philosophy, xiv, xviii, 14, 6, 910, 39, 43, 48,
100
83, 101, 10910, 11213, 117, 1212,
131, 133, 147, 149, 161, 164, 182
technology, xiv, 13, 69, 11, 37, 46, 83, 111,
philosophy of science, 149
118, 130, 133, 1446, 189, 223
phlogiston, 1724, 1845, 188
therapies, 8, 103, 106
phronesis, 1256
topology, 21, 29, 51, 53, 77
physical laws, 4, 17
treatment, 41, 44, 1047, 152
pitchfork, 612
Trout, J. D., 175
Popper, Karl, 1889
prediction, 89, 45, 106, 133, 13546, 151, understanding, 110, 1315, 17, 22, 434,
163, 181, 188
63, 68, 75, 834, 8991, 93, 96, 989,
obstacles, 44, 140, 162
101, 108, 114, 118, 128, 131, 146, 150,
reliability, 77, 133, 177, 185
1615, 167, 1708, 181, 191
predictive content, 139
objectual, 165
predictive import, 13940
propositional, 165
prescription, 9, 1335, 139, 1426
values, 17, 29, 478, 50, 523, 55, 5760, 66,
protein(s), 4, 11, 14, 223, 28, 317, 39, 42,
889, 94, 98, 109, 117, 124, 126, 133,
44, 468, 50, 5760, 104
142, 144, 146, 190
external, 142
randomness, 245, 49, 1401
variability, 223, 25, 27, 29, 467, 49, 96
retrodiction, 139
roboethics, xv
Wallach, Wendell, 118
robot, xv, 1, 6570, 738, 117, 120, 122, 125, watch, 5, 34, 37, 39
128, 131, 158
Wiener, Norbert, 119
autonomous, 75
Woodward, 152
soft, 73
Zuse, Konrad, 80
topology, 76

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