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Information and Living Systems
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The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
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  1. Preface
  2. p. ix
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xi-xliii
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  1. I. The Definition of Life
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  1. 1. The Need for a Universal Definition of Life in Twenty-first-century Biology
  2. pp. 3-23
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  1. 2. Energy Coupling
  2. pp. 25-51
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  1. II. Information and Biological Organization
  2. p. 53
  1. 3. Bioinformation as a Triadic Relation
  2. pp. 55-90
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  1. 4. The Biosemiotic Approach in Biology: Theoretical Bases and Applied Models
  2. pp. 91-129
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  1. 5. Problem Solving in the Life Cycles of Multicellular Organisms: Immunology and Cancer
  2. pp. 131-156
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  1. 6. The Informational Nature of Biological Causality
  2. pp. 157-175
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  1. 7. The Self-construction of a Living Organism
  2. pp. 177-204
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  1. 8. Plasticity and Complexity in Biology: Topological Organization, Regulatory Protein Networks, and Mechanisms of Genetic Expression
  2. pp. 205-250
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  1. III. Information and the Biology of Cognition, Value, and Language
  2. p. 251
  1. 9. Decision Making in the Economy of Nature: Value as Information
  2. pp. 253-287
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  1. 10. Information Theory and Perception: The Role of Constraints, and What Do We Maximize Information About?
  2. pp. 289-307
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  1. 11. Attention, Information, and Epistemic Perception
  2. pp. 309-352
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  1. 12. Biolinguistics and Information
  2. pp. 353-369
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  1. 13. The Biology of Personality
  2. pp. 371-406
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 407-408
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  1. Index
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Additional Information

ISBN
9780262295246
Related ISBN
9780262201742
MARC Record
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OCLC
727944878
Pages
464
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No

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