Robert Rosen wrote extensively about many scientific subjects, with a research stream that always circled back to the essential question of 'What is life?' Below you can access most of his published work, as well as some unpublished notes, including the primary ideas that led to the development of Life Itself I: Epistemology, and its intended sequel, Life Itself II: Ontology.
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A Comment on Structural Stability

The concept of structural stability in science is challenging to connect with mathematical notions like genericity or transversality due to inherent biases in the mathematical representation of physical systems, as demonstrated by the differing behaviors of real and imaginary eigenvalues in linear systems

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Structural Stability
Genericity
Linear Systems
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Article
1979

A bifurcation diagram is itself a kind of stable equilibrium

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Bifurcation
Graphs
Context
Fractionation
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Typed notes
1993

A comment on surface modulating assemblies

The concept of a surface modulating assembly, driven by transmembrane proteins, serves as a universal framework for generating coordinated cellular behaviors, akin to how neural networks produce brainlike functions

Topics:

Behavior
Neural Nets
Causality
Dated
Commentary
1979

A comment on the Richardson-Miekisz field theory of thermodynamics

Richardson and Miekisz develop a field theory of thermodynamics that connects measurement to potential energy, while Rosen approaches the measurement problem through the concept of observables from classical mechanics and quantum theory

Topics:

Thermodynamics
Measurement
Dynamical Systems
Dated
Commentary
1978

A constraint is an identical relation

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Constraints
Similarity
Fractionation
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