Information, the Hidden Side of Life.
Gaucherel, Cédric.
Information, the Hidden Side of Life. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (219 pages)
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I.1. We can change the medium without changing the information -- I.2. Where does information exist? -- I.3. What is information? -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Human and Animal Communication -- 1.1. Language, that amazing thing -- 1.2. The mechanics of language -- 1.3. What is syntax? -- 1.4. Meaning -- 1.5. Beyond meaning -- 1.6. Non-human languages -- 1.7. Types of language -- 1.8. Why give information? -- 1.9. The autonomy of information -- 1.10. Language and information -- 2. Genetic Information -- 2.1. A central concept in biology -- 2.2. Epigenetic information -- 2.3. The environment -- 2.4. Information: from replication to reproduction -- 2.5. Mutation and selection -- 2.6. The story of the message: phylogeny and coalescence -- 2.7. The point of view of the reading system -- 2.8. We cannot see the wood for the trees -- 2.9. The tree and the web … and some complexities there! -- 2.10. When information and individual can no longer be confused -- 2.11. Conflicts and levels of integration: avatars -- 2.12. Sociobiology, altruism and information -- 2.13. The "all genetics" versus epigenetics -- 2.14. What is Life? -- 3. Ecosystem and Information -- 3.1. An information-centered perspective of the ecosystem -- 3.2. Reservoirs of ecosystemic information -- 3.3. Biodiversity: an ecosystem made up of individuals -- 3.4. Phylogeny of communities: biology in the arena -- 3.5. The ecosystem: a physical system or a biological system? -- 3.6. An ecosystem made up of matter and energy -- 3.7. Failure of the physical approach -- 3.8. Physics has not said its last word -- 3.9. The great challenges of ecology -- 3.10. Flow and balance of ecosystemic information -- 3.11. Ecosystemic codes -- 3.12. The languages of the ecosystem. 4. Can We Define Information? -- 4.1. Information as surprise -- 4.2. Information measured by complexity -- 4.3. Information as organized complexity -- 4.4. Information as compression -- 4.5. Coding and information reading -- 4.6. Memory -- 5. Evolution of Information -- 5.1. In the beginning was structure -- 5.2. The first languages were ecosystemic -- 5.3. The replicators and the conservators -- 5.4. Biological languages -- 5.5. Information selection -- 5.6. Messages and languages -- 5.7. The complexification of codes -- 5.8. Complexification of languages -- 5.9. The re-creation of life -- 5.10. And what about tomorrow? -- References -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing -- EULA.
9781119579328
Information society.
Electronic books.
HM851 .G383 2019
Information, the Hidden Side of Life. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (219 pages)
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I.1. We can change the medium without changing the information -- I.2. Where does information exist? -- I.3. What is information? -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Human and Animal Communication -- 1.1. Language, that amazing thing -- 1.2. The mechanics of language -- 1.3. What is syntax? -- 1.4. Meaning -- 1.5. Beyond meaning -- 1.6. Non-human languages -- 1.7. Types of language -- 1.8. Why give information? -- 1.9. The autonomy of information -- 1.10. Language and information -- 2. Genetic Information -- 2.1. A central concept in biology -- 2.2. Epigenetic information -- 2.3. The environment -- 2.4. Information: from replication to reproduction -- 2.5. Mutation and selection -- 2.6. The story of the message: phylogeny and coalescence -- 2.7. The point of view of the reading system -- 2.8. We cannot see the wood for the trees -- 2.9. The tree and the web … and some complexities there! -- 2.10. When information and individual can no longer be confused -- 2.11. Conflicts and levels of integration: avatars -- 2.12. Sociobiology, altruism and information -- 2.13. The "all genetics" versus epigenetics -- 2.14. What is Life? -- 3. Ecosystem and Information -- 3.1. An information-centered perspective of the ecosystem -- 3.2. Reservoirs of ecosystemic information -- 3.3. Biodiversity: an ecosystem made up of individuals -- 3.4. Phylogeny of communities: biology in the arena -- 3.5. The ecosystem: a physical system or a biological system? -- 3.6. An ecosystem made up of matter and energy -- 3.7. Failure of the physical approach -- 3.8. Physics has not said its last word -- 3.9. The great challenges of ecology -- 3.10. Flow and balance of ecosystemic information -- 3.11. Ecosystemic codes -- 3.12. The languages of the ecosystem. 4. Can We Define Information? -- 4.1. Information as surprise -- 4.2. Information measured by complexity -- 4.3. Information as organized complexity -- 4.4. Information as compression -- 4.5. Coding and information reading -- 4.6. Memory -- 5. Evolution of Information -- 5.1. In the beginning was structure -- 5.2. The first languages were ecosystemic -- 5.3. The replicators and the conservators -- 5.4. Biological languages -- 5.5. Information selection -- 5.6. Messages and languages -- 5.7. The complexification of codes -- 5.8. Complexification of languages -- 5.9. The re-creation of life -- 5.10. And what about tomorrow? -- References -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing -- EULA.
9781119579328
Information society.
Electronic books.
HM851 .G383 2019