Counterplay: Further Reading

·  Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, Order out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (New York: Bantam, 1984); based on La Nouvelle Alliance: Métamorphose de la science (Paris: Gallimard, 1979).

·  Alfred Gierer and Hans Meinhardt, "A Theory of Biological Pattern Formation", Kybernetik 12, 30–39 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00289234

·  Jelena Raspopovic, Luciano Marcon, Laura Russo and James Sharpe, "Digit Patterning Is Controlled by a Bmp-Sox9-Wnt Turing Network Modulated by Morphogen Gradients", Science 345(6196), 566–570 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1252960

·  Herbert A. Simon, "The Architecture of Complexity", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106(6), 467–482 (1962).

·  Per Bak, How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality (New York: Copernicus, 1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5426-1

·  Stuart A. Kauffman, The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195079517.001.0001

·  Melanie Mitchell, James P. Crutchfield and Peter T. Hraber, "Dynamics, Computation, and the 'Edge of Chaos': A Re-Examination" (1993). https://arxiv.org/abs/adap-org/9306003

·  Woodrow L. Shew, Hongdian Yang, Thomas Petermann, Rajarshi Roy and Dietmar Plenz, "Neuronal Avalanches Imply Maximum Dynamic Range in Cortical Networks at Criticality", Journal of Neuroscience 29(49), 15595–15600 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3864-09.2009

·  Denis Noble, "Function Forms from the Symmetry Between Order and Disorder", Function 2(1), zqaa037 (2021; published online 9 November 2020). https://doi.org/10.1093/function/zqaa037

·  Raymond Noble, Kazuyo Tasaki, Penelope J. Noble and Denis Noble, "Biological Relativity Requires Circular Causality but Not Symmetry of Causation: So, Where, What and When Are the Boundaries?", Frontiers in Physiology 10, 827 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00827

·  Robert C. Richardson, "Complexity, Self-Organization and Selection", Biology and Philosophy 16, 653–682 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012030402337

·  Michael L. Wong, Carol E. Cleland, Daniel Arend Jr, Stuart Bartlett, H. James Cleaves II, Heather Demarest, Anirudh Prabhu, Jonathan I. Lunine and Robert M. Hazen, "On the Roles of Function and Selection in Evolving Systems", PNAS 120(43), e2310223120 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2310223120

·  Alicia Juarrero, Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023). https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5600/Context-Changes-EverythingHow-Constraints-Create

·  Maël Montévil and Matteo Mossio, "Biological Organisation as Closure of Constraints", Journal of Theoretical Biology 372, 179–191 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.029

·  Terrence W. Deacon, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011).

·  Warren Weaver, "Science and Complexity", American Scientist 36(4), 536–544 (1948).

·  Benedict Rattigan, "Constraint-Relative Self-Organisation: A Speculative Ordering Principle for Living Systems", OXQ Editorial III/XXVI (2026).

·  Benedict Rattigan, Edge of Chaos: Unveiling Life's Hidden Symmetry (OXQ, 2025). https://oxq.org.uk/book