Life Sciences, Information Sciences (Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing)
Language: English
Published by Wiley-ISTE, 2018
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Hardcover, xxviii + 364 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Part 1. From Gene to Species: Variability, Randomness, Stability 1. Emergence of Life: Some Notes on the Origin of Biological Information 2. Fluctuating RNA 3. Artificial Darwinian Evolution of Nucleic Acids 4. Information & Epigenetics 5. Molecular Forces & Motion in the Transmission of Information in Biology [Dynamics–function hypothesis; From thermodynamics to molecular forces; Like the devil, biology is in the details; Guitar in the river: theoretical MD; Experimental MD; Measuring average MD in whole cells; Dynamics response to stress; Conclusion: evolution 'is obliged' to select dynamics] 6. Decline & Contingency, Bases of Biological Evolution 7. Conservation, Co-evolution, Dynamics: From Sequence to Function 8. Localization of the Morphodynamic Information in Amniote Formation 9. From the Century of the Gene to that of the Organism: Introduction to New Theoretical Perspectives [Philosophical positions; From the inert to the living; Cell theory: starting point toward a theory of organisms; Founding principles: from entanglement to integration?] 10. Game of Survival, Chance, Complexity 11. Life from the Origins to Homo sapiens 12. Plankton Chronicles & the Tara Expeditions 13. Living Species is Not a Natural Kind but an Intellectual Construction [Two ways to study evolution: genealogy vs phylogeny; 3 main families of concepts of species; Reconciling the different concepts: pragmatism or essentialism?; Species & taxon name; Nature of species: a salutatory philosophical exercise] 14. Boxes & their Content: What to Do with Invariants in Biology [Natural history; Natural history & evolution; Species; Grade; Genetic information; Body plan; Misuse of convergences] 15. Probability, Sense & Evolution (Promenade) [Difficult dialogue; Knowledge & big data; Probabilities; A few striking examples; MCMC method; Neural networks; A few questions]; Part 2. Program & Life: Individuation & Interaction 16. Towards an Algorithmic Approach to Life Sciences 17. Where Does the Notion of Function Come From 18. Contribution of Artificial Life to Theoretical Biology 19. Biochemical Programs & Analog-Digital Mixed Algorithms in the Cell 20. From Computational Physics to the Origins of Life 21. Computing & Temptation of Babel [Role of information technologies; Conflicts of rationality; Information & its role in biology] 22. Big Data, Knowledge & Biology 23. Natural Language, Formal Language, Description of the Living World 24. Vital Individuation & Morphogenetic Information [Theory of vital individuation; Lamarck's ghost; DNA & its transductions; Schrodinger's flower] 25. How to Account for Interspecies Socio-cultural Phenomena? Evolutionist & Interactionist Model 26. Life: A Simplex Whirlwind between Matter, Energy & Information 27. Nutritional Interactions through the Living: from Individuals to Societies & Beyond [Living: a complex nutritional system; Nutrition at the individual & collective level; Toward a multilevel theory of nutrition] 28. Epigenetic Regulation of Protein Biosynthesis by Scale Resonance: Study of the Reduction of ESCA Effects on Vines in Field Applications 29. Quantum & Multiverse Inflation [Copernican & anti-Copernican revolutions; Selection criteria for the number of dimensions of space & time; Why is time monodimensional; Bones of the void; Buzz effect of inflation; Eye hears & recognizes the fundamental & harmonic] 30. Reontologization of the World & Life [Philosophy of information; Method & levels of abstraction; Inforgs & infosphere; Originality of the infosphere; Reontologization; Ethics of information] 31. Redesigning Life, a Serious & Credible Research Agenda? 32. Transhumanism & Future of Negation; Index.…
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- Title
- Life Sciences, Information Sciences (Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing)
- Author
- Thierry Gaudin; Dominique Lacroix; Marie-Christine Maurel; Jean-Charles Pomerol
- Publisher
- Wiley-ISTE
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1786302438
- ISBN 13
- 9781786302434
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Developed from presentations given at the Cerisy SVSI (Sciences de la vie, sciences de l’information) conference held in 2016, this book presents a broad overview of thought and research at the intersection of life sciences and information sciences.
The contributors to this edited volume explore life and information on an equal footing, with each considered as crucial to the other. In the first part of the book, the relation of life and information in the functioning of genes, at both the phylogenetic and ontogenetic levels, is articulated and the common understanding of DNA as code is problematized from a range of perspectives. The second part of the book homes in on the algorithmic nature of information, questioning the fit between life and automaton and the accompanying division between individualization and invariance.
Consisting of both philosophical speculation and ethological research, the explorations in this book are a timely intervention into prevailing understandings of the relation between information and life.
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About the Author
Thierry Gaudin is an engineer at MINES ParisTech and holds a doctorate in Information Sciences and Communication from Paris Nanterre University. He is a widely renowned expert in innovation policy and has worked with the OECD, European Commission and the World Bank.
Dominique Lacroix is a web publisher and photographer. After studying Classics at the University of Nice in France, she acquired diverse experience in multimedia. She is a co-founder, with Thierry Gaudin, of the 2100 Foundation.
Marie-Christine Maurel is Professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) and the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Her research focuses on the informational and catalytic properties of DNA and RNA and their role in the origin of life.
Jean-Charles Pomerol is a specialist in Decision Support Systems and former project leader for information technology in the Engineering Sciences Department at the CNRS. He was formerly in charge of the Artificial Intelligence laboratory at UPMC, Paris, as well as being the President of UPMC between 2006 and 2011.
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