that biologists, physicists, and mathematicians should learn to work together, in a true
cooperative effort for establishing a new experimental method of research.
Taken as a whole, this set of articles not only challenges some of the current methodo-
logical paradigms but also lays the groundwork for alternative approaches and in many cases
takes those approaches further towards the goal of understanding living systems as complex
processes, governed by both local and general control factors operating at different space
and temporal scales.
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