Biosemiotics: Information, Codes & Signs in Living Systems
Author:   Marcello Barbieri
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9781600216121


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   06 February 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Biosemiotics: Information, Codes & Signs in Living Systems


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This book presents contexts and associations of the semiotic view in biology, by making a short review of the history of the trends and ideas of biosemiotics, or semiotic biology, in parallel with theoretical biology. Biosemiotics can be defined as the science of signs in living systems. A principal and distinctive characteristic of semiotic biology lies in the understanding that in living, entities do not interact like mechanical bodies, but rather as messages, the pieces of text. This means that the whole determinism is of another type.

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Author:   Marcello Barbieri
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 26.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 18.00cm
Weight:   0.732kg
ISBN:  

9781600216121


ISBN 10:   1600216129
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   06 February 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface; A Brief History of Biosemiotics; Code-Duality and the Semiotics of Nature; Beyond Bioinformatics: Can Similarity be Measured in the Digital World?; Life is Artifact-Making; Genetics as a Communication Process Involving Error-Correcting Code; Semiotics for Biologists; Modelling Systems Theory; Natural History or Natural System? Encoding the Textual Sign; Biosemiotics as a Structural Science: Between the Forms of Life and the Life of Forms; Meaning in Nature: Placing Biosemiotics within Pansemiotics; The Physics and Metaphysics of Biosemiotics; Biosemiotics as a Mode of Thermodynamics in Second Person Description; Index.

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