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Information and Living Systems : Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Bradford Book SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (459 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262295246
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Information and Living SystemsDDC classification:
  • 570
LOC classification:
  • QH507 -- .I54 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic.
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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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