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<p>Create biographical page for person listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists (web-verified; red-link batch 9)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox scientist<br /> | name = Donald C. Mikulecky<br /> | fields = Physiology, Complexity science, Theoretical biology<br /> | workplaces = Virginia Commonwealth University<br /> | alma_mater = Illinois Institute of Technology; University of Chicago<br /> | known_for = Relational systems theory and network thermodynamics; critique of reductionism<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Donald C. Mikulecky&#039;&#039;&#039; (listed by de Climont as &quot;Donald C. Mickulecky&quot;) is a physiologist and complexity theorist, Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is listed in &#039;&#039;[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> ==Work==<br /> Mikulecky is known for developing and promoting a relational, anti-reductionist approach to living systems, drawing heavily on the relational biology of Robert Rosen. He argues that complex systems have &quot;the property... manifest in the inability of any one formalism being adequate to capture all its properties,&quot; and that organisms therefore cannot be fully reduced to machine-like descriptions. His technical work on network thermodynamics combines classical and non-equilibrium thermodynamics with network theory as a framework for complex systems, which he presents as a transition toward relational systems theory.<br /> <br /> He has written critically about the interpretation of chaos and &quot;new science,&quot; and about the differences between organisms and machines, positions that place him among critics of mainstream reductionist methodology in biology and the physical sciences.<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Donald-Mikulecky-2 ResearchGate profile]<br /> * [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11459352/ &quot;Network thermodynamics and complexity: a transition to relational systems theory&quot; (PubMed)]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Scientist|Mickulecky Donald]]<br /> [[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]</div>

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