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The paper is mathematically, physically and biologically inspired - it is a deductive attempt of the biologist to find the most appropriate language for modelling of life. Applications of mathematical structures - groupoids, groups, categories, functors and monads, which are the most effective for the description of the complex objects, are discussed. Some new conceptions and interpretations were introduced: unified classification of complex systems; the generalized conception about stationary states of any autonomous agent ("Statology"); the total quantitative criterions of evolutionary direction; the generalized group of symmetry. The definitions of information, entropy, organization, behavior, evolution, creation, life, culture, cognition were formulated. An actually closed and potentially opened ecosystem was introduced as the elementary object of organization and evolution of life. Evolution considered as process of generating of a concrete group G of permutations of elements of ecosystems, which is based on activities of the intrinsic autonomous agents. Life was considered as the way of realization of extreme principles of physics through co-organizing of behavior of the ecosystem elements and through dilating borders of the ecosystem by an interiorization of an extrinsic environment.
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Kalmykov, V. Generalized Theory of Life. Nat Prec (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2012.7108.1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2012.7108.1