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  title info:
    title: LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE
    sub title: Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary
  name:
    name part: Pattee, Howard Hunt.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rączaszek-Leonardi, Joanna.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 336 p. online resource.
  abstract: The present volume provides Pattee’s in-depth treatment of the physical basis of symbolic functions. Understanding the physical preconditions for the origin of symbols is essential at all levels, from the origin of life to the measurement problem of physics. The entire field of biosemiotics depends on understanding the physical nature of structures that can have a symbolic function. The importance of Pattee’s work lies not only in its clarification of biosemiotics’ scientific bases, but also by relating symbols to dynamics it becomes relevant to cognitive science, which today acknowledges the importance of embodied cognition in a physical and social environment. Pattee’s views forge links between dynamical, continuous processes and symbolic thought that create a basis for a viable third way­combining the purely symbolic, computational models of cognition and purely dynamic, non-representationalist models. It is a step toward showing the unfeasibility of reductionism, achieved without proposing non-material entities. Howard Pattee is still an active, publishing, scientist; however his early fundamental, now classic, papers are difficult to access. They are not present in large databases, nor reprinted in other widely accessible journals or books. The book aims at making those papers available for a wider public with contemporary Introduction by the Author and Afterword by Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, which link the original papers to current discourse in biosemiotics and the cognitive sciences.
  table of contents: Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction by Howard Pattee -- The Physical Basis of Coding and Reliability in Biological Evolution -- How Does a Molecule Become a Message? -- Physical Problems of Decision-Making Constraints -- Laws and constraints, symbols and languages -- The Physical Basis and Origin of Hierarchical Control -- Postscript: Unsolved Problems and Potential Applications of Hierarchy Theory -- Discrete and Continuous Processes in Computers and Brains -- The complementarity principle in biological and social structures -- Clues from Molecular Symbol Systems -- Cell Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach to the Symbol-Matter Problem -- Universal Principles of Measurement and Language Functions in Evolving Systems -- Instabilities and Information in Biological Self-organization -- Evolving Self-Reference: Matter, Symbols, and Semantic Closure -- Artificial Life Needs a Real Epistemology -- The Problem of Observables in Models of Biological Organizations -- Causation, Control, and the Evolution of Complexity -- The Necessity of Biosemiotics: Matter-Symbol Complementarity -- Afterword by Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi.
  note: by Howard Hunt Pattee, Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Bioinformatics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Bioinformatics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Language
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  classification: QH301-705
  classification: 570
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Biosemiotics, 7
  identifier: 9789400751613
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5161-3
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