Life in Context

08 July 2022, Version 1
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Abstract

Remarkably, there is no agreed definition of an Organism. Furthermore, the "characteristics of living things" is the name of a family of uncurated lists. Life in Context reports on the application of bioscientific information modelling techniques to the description of "living things". It addresses systems engineering modelling concerns, and demonstrates that "living" and "non-living" are "non-disjoint datatypes". The generalized patterns of the fully-personalized bio-state "Alive" relate to all domains of knowledge through keyword analysis and the concept of a "Complex System Object". The bio-state "Alive" may therefore be thought of as the Standard Model of Science. This work links back to the model of real-time choice described in "Maslow's Legacy" and "The Art of Choice". It forms part of the traceable derivation of the proposed Open Knowledge Reference Model (OKRM) described in "Outbound Insights" and related articles.

Keywords

Knowledge curation
Living things
State "Alive"
Open Knowledge Reference Model
OKRM
Organism
Patterns
Conceptual modelling
Mapping

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