Information and Living Systems : Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives.
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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.
The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic.
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