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Welcome to the System wiki based on the 2 day meeting 10/2/19 to 10/3/19 with 4 face-to-face participants and some call ins.
Defs to help identify the relevant concepts we look at several views of mechanisms and systems:
- “A mechanism for a behavior is a complex system that produces that behavior by the interaction of a number of parts, where the interactions between parts can be characterized by direct, change-relating generalizations.”
Behaviors are produced by/caused by mechanisms. Mechanisms are complex systems with interaction parts. Part interactions can be characterized.
- “Mechanisms are entities and activities organized such that they are productive of regular changes from start or set-up to finish or terminating conditions.”
Mechanisms are both entities and activities. Mechanisms are organized/structured. Mechanisms produce change. Change has a start and an end (states). Starts and ends have conditions. End states have terminating conditions.
Relevant papers include: Mechanisms in biomedical ontology Johannes Röhl From Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences (OBML 2011)
Glennan S: Rethinking mechanistic explanation. Philosophy of Science 2002, 69:342-353.