LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE

Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary

AvHoward Hunt Pattee,Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Del i serien Biosemiotics

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Pattee’s work awakes new interest in cognitive scientists, where his recognition of the necessary separation—the epistemic cut—between the subject and object provides a basis for a complementary third way of relating the purely symbolic, computational models of cognition and the purely dynamic, non-representational models.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-12-08
Mått:155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:694 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Biosemiotics
Antal sidor:336
Upplaga:2013
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789400751606

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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 Rączaszek-Leonardi