LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary /
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...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Σειρά: | Biosemiotics,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.
