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Information and living systems : philosophical and scientific perspectives /
'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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2011.
©2011 |
| Colección: | Bradford book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 [and others]
- 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-Vallée
- 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 José Figueredo [and others].