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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (459 p.)
• Disciplina: 570
• Soggetto topico: Information theory in biology
• Soggetto non controllato: PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
• Altri autori: TerzisGeorge <1951-> ArpRobert
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Information and living systems
• ISBN: 1-283-11901-3; 9786613119018; 0-262-29524-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789569803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II