A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology a study of
life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book
represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories lattices and modelling and
the result is a synthetic biology that provides a characterization of life. Biology extends
physics. Life is not a specialization of mechanism but an expansive generalization of it.
Organisms and machines share some common features but organisms are not machines. Life is
defined by a relational closure that places it beyond the reach of physicochemical and
mechanistic dogma outside the reductionistic universe and into the realm of impredicativity.
Function dictates structure. Complexity brings forth living beings.
