Joana C. Xavier, Ph.D. is an engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, philosopher, creative, working on understanding life, the origins of life, useful modelling strategies (epistemology), life as modelling and modeller.
Joana is currently based in Portugal, where she was born. She is often in the UK, USA, and other parts of our beautiful globe. She thrives when (re)shaping networks and patterns of concepts, minds, and organisations.
Inspiration
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.“
―RACHEL CARSON, The Real World Around Us (1954), in Lost Woods (1998)
“The true causes of natural effects and of the phenomena we observe are often so far from the principles on which we can rely and the experiments we can make that one is obliged to be content with probable reasons to explain them.“
—ÉMILIE DU CHÂTELET, Institutions De Physique (1740)
Metabolism, from the Greek metabolē: change. The change of change itself.
“[…] there is an essential difference between the laws for systems at equilibrium and those for systems that are far from equilibrium. The laws of equilibrium are universal. However, far from equilibrium the behaviour may become very specific.“
—ILYA PRIGOGINE, From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences (1980)
