Reviving the Living: Meaning Making in Living Systems
Elsevier (2008)
| Abstract | What is reductionism? -- Who is reading the book of life? -- Genetics : from grammar to meaning making -- A point for thought : why are organisms irreducible? -- A point for thought : does the genetic system include a meta-language? -- Immunology : from soldiers to housewives -- A point for thought : immune specificity and Brancusi's kiss -- A point for thought : reflections on the immune self -- Meaning making in language and biology -- A point for thought : meaning : bridging the gap between physics and semantics -- The rest is silence -- The polysemy of the sign : a quantum lesson -- Recursive-hierarchy : a lesson from the tardigrade -- Context and memory : a lesson from funes the memorious -- Transgradience : a lesson from Bakhtin -- The poetry of living. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Life sciences Philosophy Meaning (Philosophy | |||||||||
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| Call number | QH331.N48 2008 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780444530332 0444530339 | |||||||||
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