Formal Modelling to Understand Life Systems

Information and communication technology (ICT) increasingly controls life and social life. It rests on programmed software, creating formal models of life systems. Resting on which constitutional/evolutional qualities can life systems formally be described? Models are simplifications of realty constrained by purpose. What may they mean for life systems controlled concerning their further development? If but mosaically the paper highlights base formal modelling constituting life systems proposing a transdisciplinary approach. Movement and rhythm ground learning and information transfer. Representation and memory of models of the past and the future originate anticipation. Modelling creates a language of signs, supporting pragmatic heuristics. Modelling copes with complexity generating simplicity in behaviour and handling.