DNA Information: Laws of Perception

• Main Author: Muskhelishvili, Georgi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical genetics.; Genetic engineering.; Biology > Philosophy.; Evolutionary biology.; Biomedicine.; Gene Function.; Evolutionary Biology.; Philosophy of Biology.; Genetic Engineering.

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 com...

Table of Contents:

• 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.