Information and living systems: philosophical and scientific perspectives / ed. by G.Terzis, R.Arp. - Cambridge; London: MIT Press, 2011. - xliii, 414 p.: ill. - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind.: p.409-414. - ISBN 978-0-262-20174-2  Место хранения:   040 | Институт биофизики СО РАН | Красноярск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Preface ........................................................ ix Introduction ................................................... xi I The Definition of Life ....................................... 1 1 The Need for a Universal Definition of Life in Twenty- first-century Biology ........................................ 3 Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo and Alvaro Moreno 2 Energy Coupling ............................................. 25 Yaşar Demirel II Information and Biological Organization ..................... 53 3 Bioinformation as a Triadic Relation ........................ 55 Alfredo Marcos 4 The Biosemiotic Approach in Biology: Theoretical Bases and Applied Models .............................................. 91 João Queiroz, Claus Emmeche, Kalevi Kull, and Charbel El-Hani 5 Problem Solving in the Life Cycles of Multicellular Organisms: Immunology and Cancer ........................... 131 Niall Shanks and Rebecca A. Pyles 6 The Informational Nature of Biological Causality ........... 157 Alvaro Moreno and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo 7 The Self-construction of a Living Organism ................. 177 Natalia López-Moratalla and Maria Cerezo 8 Plasticity and Complexity in Biology: Topological Organization, Regulatory Protein Networks, and Mechanisms of Genetic Expression ........................... 205 Luciano Boi III Information and the Biology of Cognition, Value, and Language ...................................................... 251 9 Decision Making in the Economy of Nature: Value as Information ................................................ 253 Benoit Hardy-Vallée 10 Information Theory and Perception: The Role of Constraints, and What Do We Maximize Information About? .... 289 Roland Baddeley, Benjamin Vincent, and David Attewell 11 Attention, Information, and Epistemic Perception ........... 309 Nicolas J. Bullot 12 Biolinguistics and Information ............................. 353 Cedric Boeckx and Juan Uriagereka 13 The Biology of Personality ................................. 371 Aurelio José Figueredo, W. Jake Jacobs, Sarah B. Burger, Paul R. Gladden, and Sally G. Olderbak Contributors .................................................. 407 Index ......................................................... 409