Publications by authors named "John Z Colt"
Background: We review and extend the work of Rosen and Casti who discuss category theory with regards to systems biology and manufacturing systems, respectively.
Results: We describe anticipatory systems, or long-range feed-forward chemical reaction chains, and compare them to open-loop manufacturing processes. We then close the loop by discussing metabolism-repair systems and describe the rationality of the self-referential equation f = f (f).