Rosen, R. (1991). Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life. Columbia University Press.
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Why this is here
A11 called it “the strongest addition on the realization side”: what it takes for a relational organization to be causally self-sustaining, with the warning that “self-revision is not the same thing as self- production”, which CLAIM-476’s “Not that the record is self- maintaining” already holds. The record reads Rosen at second hand in Rubin et al.’s genealogy of closure (LIT-1027, NOTE-727).