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LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE [electronic resource] : Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary / by Howard Hunt Pattee, Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi.
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- ISBN: 9789400751613
- Physical Description: XV, 333 p. 1 illus. online resource.
- Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : 2012.
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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 RÄ czaszek-Leonardi. |
