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A Legacy for Living Systems

Author : Jesper Hoffmeyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402067062
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Legacy for Living Systems written by Jesper Hoffmeyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his major contribution to science received little attention from the mainstream scientific communities. This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. The idea that organismic life is indeed basically semiotic or communicative lies at the heart of the biosemiotic approach to the study of life. The only book of its kind, this volume provides a key resource for the quickly-growing substratum of scholars in the biosciences, philosophy and medicine who are seeking an elegant new approach to exploring highly complex systems.

Living Systems

Author : James Grier Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Systems written by James Grier Miller and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, James Grier Miller's groundbreaking Living Systems presents an integrated, multidisciplinary analysis of the nature of all biological and social systems.

Physical Models of Living Systems

Author : Philip Nelson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319036902
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Physical Models of Living Systems written by Philip Nelson and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for intermediate-level undergraduates pursuing any science or engineering major, Physical Models of Living Systems helps students develop many of the competencies that form the basis of the new MCAT2015. The only prerequisite is first-year physics. With the more advanced "Track-2" sections at the end of each chapter, the book can be used in graduate-level courses as well.

Small Arcs of Larger Circles

Author : Nora Bateson
Publisher : Triarchy Press
ISBN 13 : 190947097X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Small Arcs of Larger Circles written by Nora Bateson and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important first collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson, president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI) and an adviser to numerous bodies at international and governmental level.

The Systems View of Life

Author : Fritjof Capra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107011361
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Systems View of Life written by Fritjof Capra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume to integrate life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions into a single, coherent framework.

Essential Readings in Biosemiotics

Author : Donald Favareau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140209650X
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Essential Readings in Biosemiotics written by Donald Favareau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems. Seeking to advance a naturalistic understanding of the evolution and development of sign-dependent life processes, contemporary biosemiotic theory offers important new conceptual tools for the scientific understanding of mind and meaning, for the development of artificial intelligence, and for the ongoing research into the rich diversity of non-verbal human, animal and biological communication processes. Donald Favareau’s Essential Readings in Biosemiotics has been designed as a single-source overview of the major works informing this new interdiscipline, and provides scholarly historical and analytical commentary on each of the texts presented. The first of its kind, this book constitutes a valuable resource to both bioscientists and to semioticians interested in this emerging new discipline, and can function as a primary textbook for students in biosemiotics, as well. Moreover, because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature and its focus on the ‘big questions’ of cognition, meaning and evolutionary biology, this volume should be of interest to anyone working in the fields of cognitive science, theoretical biology, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, communication studies or the history and philosophy of science.

Understanding Gregory Bateson

Author : Noel G. Charlton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478270
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Gregory Bateson by : Noel G. Charlton

Download or read book Understanding Gregory Bateson written by Noel G. Charlton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Gregory Bateson’s unique perspective on the relationship of humanity to the natural world.

The Principles of Life

Author : Tibor Ganti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198507260
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Principles of Life written by Tibor Ganti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a new essay, "Levels of Life and Death," Tibor Gánti develops three general arguments about the nature of life. In "The Nature of the Living State," Professor Gánti answers Francis Crick's puzzles about "life itself," offering a set of reflections on the parameters of the problems to be solved in origins of life research and, more broadly, in the search for principles governing the living state in general. "The Principle of Life" describes in accessible language Gánti's chief insight about the organization of living systems-his theory of the "chemoton," or chemical automaton. The simplest chemoton model of the living state consists of three chemically coupled subsystems: an autocatalytic metabolism, a genetic molecule and a membrane. Gánti offers a fresh approach to the ancient problem of "life criteria," articulating a basic philosophy of the units of life applicable to the deepest theoretical considerations of genetics, chemical synthesis, evolutionary biology and the requirements of an "exact theoretical biology." New essays by Eörs Szathmáry and James Griesemer on the biological and philosophical significance of Gánti's work of thirty years indicate not only the enduring theoretical significance, but also the continuing relevance and heuristic power of Gánti's insights. New endnotes by Szathmáry and Griesemer bring this legacy into dialogue with current thought in biology and philosophy. Gánti's chemoton model reveals the fundamental importance of chemistry for biology and philosophy. Gánti's technical innovation - cycle stoichiometry - at once captures the fundamental fact that biological systems are organized in cycles and at the same time offers a way to understand what it is to think chemically. Perhaps most fundamentally, Gánti's chemoton model avoids dualistic thinking enforced by the dichotomies of modern biology: germ and soma, gene and character, genotype and phenotype.

Information Processing and Living Systems

Author : Vladimir B. Baji?
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1860945635
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Information Processing and Living Systems written by Vladimir B. Baji? and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information processing and information flow occur in the course of an organism's development and throughout its lifespan. Organisms do not exist in isolation, but interact with each other constantly within a complex ecosystem. The relationships between organisms, such as those between prey or predator, host and parasite, and between mating partners, are complex and multidimensional. In all cases, there is constant communication and information flow at many levels.This book focuses on information processing by life forms and the use of information technology in understanding them. Readers are first given a comprehensive overview of biocomputing before navigating the complex terrain of natural processing of biological information using physiological and analogous computing models. The remainder of the book deals with ?artificial? processing of biological information as a human endeavor in order to derive new knowledge and gain insight into life forms and their functioning. Specific innovative applications and tools for biological discovery are provided as the link and complement to biocomputing.Since ?artificial? processing of biological information is complementary to natural processing, a better understanding of the former helps us improve the latter. Consequently, readers are exposed to both domains and, when dealing with biological problems of their interest, will be better equipped to grasp relevant ideas.

Theoretical Physics for Biological Systems

Author : Paola Lecca
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351374311
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Physics for Biological Systems written by Paola Lecca and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum physics provides the concepts and their mathematical formalization that lend themselves to describe important properties of biological networks topology, such as vulnerability to external stress and their dynamic response to changing physiological conditions. A theory of networks enhanced with mathematical concepts and tools of quantum physics opens a new area of biological physics, the one of systems biological physics.

Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives

Author : Orsucci, Franco
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466620781
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives written by Orsucci, Franco and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are new and important advancements in todays complexity theories in ICT and requires an extraordinary perspective on the interaction between living systems and information technologies. With human evolution and its continuous link with the development of new tools and environmental changes, technological advancements are paving the way for new evolutionary steps. Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives is a collection of research provided by academics and scholars aiming to introduce important advancements in areas such as artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, neural networks, and much more. This scholarly piece will provide contributions that will define the line of development in complexity science.

Understanding Living Systems

Author : Raymond Noble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009277367
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Living Systems written by Raymond Noble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny and evolution. Genes do not control life.

Understanding Living Systems

Author : Raymond Noble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009277396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Living Systems written by Raymond Noble and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It demonstrate show organisms make choices, influencing their behavior, their development and evolution, and act as agents of natural selection. It presents a novel approach to fundamental philosophical and cultural issues, such as free will. Reading this book will make you see life in a new light, as a marvelous phenomenon, and in some sense a triumph of evolution. We are not in our genes, our genes are in us"--

Living Systems

Author : Christa Sommerer
Publisher : ACTAR Publishers
ISBN 13 : 8492861797
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Living Systems written by Christa Sommerer and published by ACTAR Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Christa Sommerer (*Germany, 1964) and Laurent Mignonneau (*France, 1965) explore the relation between art, science and technology. Their projects have been branded as pioneering not only for their natural and intuitive development of diverse interactive interfaces, but also for the application of basic scientific principles from the fields of biology, artificial life, complexity science and nanotechnology. This book reviews their oeuvres and is a testament to the underlying scientific concepts. Sommerer and Mignonneau have shown in numerous exhibitions and are featured in digital art collections and museums around the world, including the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and the NTT-ICC InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Japan. In 1994, they received one of the most pres- tigious media art awards, the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica. They currently lecture at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Japan and at the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. The book includes texts by two professors of art and science, Suzanne Witzgall and Ricard Sole.

Radically Human

Author : Paul Daugherty
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1647821096
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Radically Human written by Paul Daugherty and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology advances are making tech more . . . human. This changes everything you thought you knew about innovation and strategy. In their groundbreaking book, Human + Machine, Accenture technology leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson showed how leading organizations use the power of human-machine collaboration to transform their processes and their bottom lines. Now, as new AI powered technologies like the metaverse, natural language processing, and digital twins begin to rapidly impact both life and work, those companies and other pioneers across industries are tipping the balance even more strikingly toward the human side with technology-led strategy that is reshaping the very nature of innovation. In Radically Human, Daugherty and Wilson show this profound shift, fast-forwarded by the pandemic, toward more human—and more humane—technology. Artificial intelligence is becoming less artificial and more intelligent. Instead of data-hungry approaches to AI, innovators are pursuing data-efficient approaches that enable machines to learn as humans do. Instead of replacing workers with machines, they're unleashing human expertise to create human-centered AI. In place of lumbering legacy IT systems, they're building cloud-first IT architectures able to continuously adapt to a world of billions of connected devices. And they're pursuing strategies that will take their place alongside classic, winning business formulas like disruptive innovation. These against-the-grain approaches to the basic building blocks of business—Intelligence, Data, Expertise, Architecture, and Strategy (IDEAS)—are transforming competition. Industrial giants and startups alike are drawing on this radically human IDEAS framework to create new business models, optimize post-pandemic approaches to work and talent, rebuild trust with their stakeholders, and show the way toward a sustainable future. With compelling insights and fresh examples from a variety of industries, Radically Human will forever change the way you think about, practice, and win with innovation.

Information and Living Systems

Author : George Terzis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026229513X
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Information and Living Systems written by George Terzis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic. Information shapes biological organization in fundamental ways and at every organizational level. Because organisms use information—including DNA codes, gene expression, and chemical signaling—to construct, maintain, repair, and replicate themselves, it would seem only natural to use information-related ideas in our attempts to understand the general nature of living systems, the causality by which they operate, the difference between living and inanimate matter, and the emergence, in some biological species, of cognition, emotion, and language. And yet philosophers and scientists have been slow to do so. This volume fills that gap. Information and Living Systems offers a collection of original chapters in which scientists and philosophers discuss the informational nature of biological organization at levels ranging from the genetic to the cognitive and linguistic. The chapters examine not only familiar information-related ideas intrinsic to the biological sciences but also broader information-theoretic perspectives used to interpret their significance. The contributors represent a range of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, chemistry, cognitive science, information theory, philosophy, psychology, and systems theory, thus demonstrating the deeply interdisciplinary nature of the volume's bioinformational theme.

Investigations Into Living Systems, Artificial Life, and Real-world Solutions

Author : George D. Magoulas
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466638915
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Investigations Into Living Systems, Artificial Life, and Real-world Solutions written by George D. Magoulas and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides original research on the theoretical and applied aspects of artificial life, as well as addresses scientific, psychological, and social issues of synthetic life-like behavior and abilities"--Provided by publisher.