TY  - BOOK
AU  - Terzis,George
AU  - Arp,Robert
AU  - Ruiz-Mirazo,Kepa
AU  - Moreno,Alvaro
AU  - Demirel,Yasar
AU  - Marcos,Alfredo
AU  - Queiroz,João
AU  - Emmeche,Claus
AU  - Kull,Kalevi
AU  - El-Hani,Charbel
TI  - Information and Living Systems: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
T2  - A Bradford Book Series
SN  - 9780262295246
AV  - QH507 -- .I54 2011eb 
U1  - 570 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Information theory in biology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I The Definition of Life -- 1 The Need for a Universal Definition of Life in Twenty-first-century Biology -- 2 Energy Coupling -- II Information and Biological Organization -- 3 Bioinformation as a Triadic Relation -- 4 The Biosemiotic Approach in Biology -- 5 Problem Solving in the Life Cycles of Multicellular Organisms -- 6 The Informational Nature of Biological Causality -- 7 The Self-construction of a Living Organism -- 8 Plasticity and Complexity in Biology -- III Information and the Biology of Cognition, Value, and Language -- 9 Decision Making in the Economy of Nature -- 10 Information Theory and Perception -- 11 Attention, Information, and Epistemic Perception -- 12 Biolinguistics and Information -- 13 The Biology of Personality -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic
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