From 21eb28d5bca3afe7a3b52235932174e34b12bb87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergiu Ivanov Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 10:49:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Start The Deal: A conceptual maquette. --- deal.tex | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/deal.tex b/deal.tex index 4a9222c..a65ec2a 100644 --- a/deal.tex +++ b/deal.tex @@ -461,6 +461,35 @@ application to decide whether, how much, and in which way to prioritize this benefit over the profit we humans are expecting to extract. +\section{The Deal: A conceptual maquette} +\label{sec:maquette} + +This section aims to provide an overview of the Deal with Life +framework for thinking about mutually beneficial interactions with +living systems, without focusing on the formal details. +Properly formalizing the ideas exposed in this section is +a significant part of my future research. + +A formalization of the Deal with Life is structured into two stages: +\begin{enumerate} +\item abstract general framework, +\item concrete implementations. +\end{enumerate} +The abstract general framework rigorously defines the main concepts: +the interacting systems, their benefits, etc., while concrete +implementations instantiate these definitions for concrete systems, +supplying additional concepts and tools applicable to the concrete +case. Concrete implementations in their own turn occur on two levels: +concrete formal dynamical systems---e.g., membrane systems, Boolean +networks, string rewriting systems\footnote{The subsequent chapters of + this manuscript describe these formal dynamical systems in more + detail.}---and concrete biological systems---e.g., a human, +population of yeasts, a plant, an ecosystem, etc. Note that while the +introductory discourse heavily focuses on how we as humans interact +with Life, the Deal with Life framework can be adapted to +characterizing and evaluating the interactions between other living +systems, not necessarily involving the human. + \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography] \end{refsection}