Life sciences, information sciences / edited by Thierry Gaudin [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaudin, Thierry, editor.

Series:

Information systems, web and pervasive computing series.

Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information science--Congresses.

Information science.

Life sciences--Congresses.

Life sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : ISTE Ltd/John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2018.

Summary:

Developed from presentations given at the Cerisy SVSI (Sciences de la vie, sciences de l'information) conference held in 2016, this book presents a broad overview of thought and research at the intersection of life sciences and information sciences. The contributors to this edited volume explore life and information on an equal footing, with each considered as crucial to the other. In the first part of the book, the relation of life and information in the functioning of genes, at both the phylogenetic and ontogenetic levels, is articulated and the common understanding of DNA as code is problematized from a range of perspectives. The second part of the book homes in on the algorithmic nature of information, questioning the fit between life and automaton and the accompanying division between individualization and invariance. Consisting of both philosophical speculation and ethological research, the explorations in this book are a timely intervention into prevailing understandings of the relation between information and life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119516606

1119516609

9781119516583

1119516587

9781119452713

1119452716