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Information and living systems philosophical and scientific perspectives

Title
Information and living systems [electronic resource] : philosophical and scientific perspectives / edited by George Terzis and Robert Arp.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Terzis, George, 1951-2023.
  • Arp, Robert.
Description
1 online resource (xliii, 414 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Information and living systems (Online)
Subject
Information theory in biology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
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-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 ... [et al.].
LCCN
2010026309
OCLC
ssj0000523416
Title
Information and living systems [electronic resource] : philosophical and scientific perspectives / edited by George Terzis and Robert Arp.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Terzis, George, 1951-2023.
Arp, Robert.
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