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| Title: | Biosemiotics
: Information, Codes & Signs in Living Systems |
| Author: | Marcello Barbieri (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1600216129 : 9781600216121 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 260 |
| Weight: | .732 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - February 2007 |
| List Price: | 59.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Molecular biology |
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.
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.
