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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298296303321

Autore

Muskhelishvili Georgi

Titolo

DNA Information: Laws of Perception / / by Georgi Muskhelishvili

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-17425-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, , 2211-9353

Disciplina

570.1

576.8

610

611.01816

660.65

Soggetti

Medical genetics

Evolutionary biology

Biology—Philosophy

Genetic engineering

Gene Function

Evolutionary Biology

Philosophy of Biology

Genetic Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Some facts about our Universe -- Problems of logical typing: The "one" and the "unity" -- Logical typing and the notion of time in biology -- Organisation of the genetic system: Proteins as vehicles of distinction -- Harnessing energy and information: Time-irreversibility of thermodynamics -- Social communications and logical typing in the social system.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the double coding property of DNA, which is manifested in the digital and analog information types as two interdependent codes. This double coding principle can be applied to all living systems, from the level of the individual cell to entire social systems, seen as systems of communication. Further topics discussed



include the ubiquitous problem of logical typing, which reflects our inherent incapacity to simultaneously perceive discontinuity and continuity, the problem of time, and the peculiarities of autopoietic living systems. It is shown that the scientific “truths” that appear to be coherent constructions connecting the scientifically verified observations by the rules of logic are in fact always relative and never absolute.