La possession du degré d’autonomie chez les vivants
Journal Title: Scientia et Fides - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
The possession of degree of autonomy in living beings In the numerous attempts to define the concept of life, the use of prefixes like “self”, “auto” appears recurrently. This shows the fundamental importance attached to autonomy among the living beings. The author first analyzes the various types and degrees of autonomy, beginning from some contemporary thinkers, like Jonas, Morin, Varela, Davies, Wandschneider; and afterwards, the various types of systemic autonomy are compared with the four systemic levels of contemporary biological theories (genetics, cytology, cybernetics, evolution / ecology). The dependent autonomy of morphogenesis relative to the genetic level is presented as a paradigm of systemic autonomy. Stratified emergence and relative containment of systemic levels and their causal interdependencies (upward and downward), reveal life’s tendency to increase and maximize autonomous levels. A study of individual autonomy is also presented and developed around the concepts of feedback and feed-forwards, homeostasis, motor and feeding autonomy, to develop more fully towards the emancipation and exploratory autonomies, as self-determinacies. These types of higher autonomies are the result of several properties, especially the equipotentiality related to attractors exhibiting flat spread basins of attraction. These properties are shaped by the lower functional levels as logistical granting for autonomous decision-making capability at the higher level. The author follows Jonas’ theory affirming the intrinsic tendency of living systems to produce increasingly refined autonomies, whose supreme analog degree is found in human freedom. So, autonomy is presented as an analog concept applicable to all living, biological and spiritual.
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Philippe Dalleur
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