Indigenous Concepts of ‘Living Systems’: Aristotelian ‘Soul’ meets Constructal Theory

Constructal Theory and Flow Architectures in Living Systems

We ap ply Constructal the ory to the study of the flow struc ture of the hu man re spi ra tory tree. We show that the flow ar chi tec ture that would per form ox y gen a tion of the blood and re moval of car bon di ox ide best, i. e. with low est re sis tance, would be com posed of a chan nel sys tem with 23 bi fur ca tion with a dif fu sive zone (alveolus) at the end. As this tree matches the ...

Substance, body and soul: Aristotelian investigations

Ladurie, F. Lebrun, J.-N. Biraben, J.-P. Peter, and J.-P. Goubert. With the exception of one article by David Gaunt which originally appeared in Swedish, all of Imhof's choices were first published in French, so the translations into German are unlikely to be of particular use to English-speaking historians. However, Imhof has also written an excellent sixty-five-page introduction to his subjec...

Constructal theory of pattern formation

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The essence of soul concepts: how soul concepts influence ethical reasoning across religious affiliation

The complexity of living: when biology meets theory. Conference on Systems Dynamics of Intracellular Communication.