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Information and living systems : philosophical and scientific perspectives / edited by George Terzis and Robert Arp.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information theory in biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (459 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Information and Living Systems' offers a collection of papers in which scientists & philosophers discuss the informational nature of biological organization at levels ranging from the genetic to the cognitive and linguistic.
- Contents:
- The need for a universal definition of life in twenty-first-century biology / Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo and Alvaro Moreno
- Energy coupling / Yaşar Demirel
- Bioinformation as a triadic relation / Alfredo Marcos
- The biosemiotic approach in biology : theoretical bases and applied models / João Queiroz ... [et al.]
- Problem solving in the life cycles of multicellular organisms : immunology and cancer / Niall Shanks and Rebecca A. Pyles
- The informational nature of biological causality / Alvaro Moreno and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo
- The self-construction of a living organism / Natalia López-Moratella and María Cerezo
- Plasticity and complexity in biology : topological organization, regulatory protein networks, and mechanisms of genetic expression / Luciano Boi
- Decision making in the economy of nature : value as information / Benoit Hardy-Vallee
- Information theory and perception : the role of constraints, and what do we maximize information about? / Roland Baddeley, Benjamin Vincent, and David Attewell
- Attention, information, and epistemic perception / Nicolas J. Bullot
- Biolinguistics and information / Cedric Boeckx and Juan Uriagereka
- The biology of personality / Aurelio Jose Figueredo ... [et al.].
- Notes:
- "Bradford book."
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11901-3
- 9786613119018
- 0-262-29524-5
- OCLC:
- 727944878
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