According to the autonomous perspective, the constitutive organisation of biological systems realises an emergent regime of causation, which we labelled closure of constraints. One of the crucial implications of the realisation of closure is that, as we will argue in this chapter, it provides an adequate grounding for a distinctive feature of biological systems, namely their functionality.
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Moreno, A., & Mossio, M. (2015). Teleology, Normativity and Functionality. In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (Vol. 12, pp. 63–87). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9837-2_3
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