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LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE: Howard Pattee's classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary - Couverture souple

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Pattee, Howard Hunt; Rączaszek-Leonardi, Joanna

 
9789400751620: LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE: Howard Pattee's classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary

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Synopsis

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

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