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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789569803321

Titolo

Information and living systems : philosophical and scientific perspectives / / edited by George Terzis and Robert Arp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

©2011

ISBN

1-283-11901-3

9786613119018

0-262-29524-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (459 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TerzisGeorge <1951->

ArpRobert

Disciplina

570

Soggetti

Information theory in biology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Bradford book."

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The need for a universal definition of life in twenty-first-century biology / Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo and Alvaro Moreno -- Energy coupling / Yaşar Demirel -- Bioinformation as a triadic relation / Alfredo Marcos -- The biosemiotic approach in biology : theoretical bases and applied models / João Queiroz ... [et al.] -- Problem solving in the life cycles of multicellular organisms : immunology and cancer / Niall Shanks and Rebecca A. Pyles -- The informational nature of biological causality / Alvaro Moreno and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo -- The self-construction of a living organism / Natalia López-Moratella and María Cerezo -- Plasticity and complexity in biology : topological organization, regulatory protein networks, and mechanisms of genetic expression / Luciano Boi -- Decision making in the economy of nature : value as information / Benoit Hardy-Vallee -- Information theory and perception : the role of constraints, and what do we maximize information about? / Roland Baddeley, Benjamin Vincent, and David Attewell -- Attention, information, and epistemic perception / Nicolas J. Bullot -- Biolinguistics and information / Cedric Boeckx and Juan Uriagereka -- The biology of personality / Aurelio Jose Figueredo ... [et



al.].

Sommario/riassunto

'Information and Living Systems' offers a collection of papers in which scientists & philosophers discuss the informational nature of biological organization at levels ranging from the genetic to the cognitive and linguistic.